Part 51

939. Probity — N. probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness &c adj.; honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi [Fr.], good faith, bona fides [Lat.]; purity, clean hands. fairness &c adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness; grace. constancy; faithfulness &c adj.; fidelity, loyalty; incorruption, incorruptibility. trustworthiness &c adj.; truth, candor, singleness of heart; veracity &c 543; tender conscience &c (sense of duty) 926. punctilio, delicacy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness &c adj.; scruple; point, point of honor; punctuality. dignity &c, (repute) 873; respectability, respectableness &c adj.; gentilhomme [Fr.], gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates [Lat.], preux chevalier [Fr.], galantuomo [It]; truepenny†, trump, brick; true Briton; white man [U.S.]. court of honor, a fair field and no favor; argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.]. V. be honorable &c adj.; deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth &c (veracity) 543; draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero [Lat.]; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty &c (virtue) 944. redeem one's pledge &c 926; keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as one's word; keep faith with, not fail. give and take, audire alteram partem [Lat.], give the Devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse. redound to one's honor. Adj. upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious &c 543; virtuous &c 944; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white [U.S.]. constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; marble-constant [Antony and Cleopatra]; true- hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible. straightforward &c (ingenuous) 703; frank, candid, open-hearted. conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike†. inviolable, inviolate; unviolated†, unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought, unbribed†. innocent &c 946; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured†; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved†, undebauched†; integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat.] [Horace]; justus et tenax propositi [Lat.] [Horace]. chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.]; high-spirited. supramundane†, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous†. Adv. honorable &c adj.; bona fide; on the square, in good faith, honor bright, foro conscientiae [Lat.], with clean hands. Phr. a face untaught to feign [Pope]; bene qui latuit bene vixit [Lat.] [Ovid]; mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.]; probitas laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; fidelis ad urnam [Lat.]; his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth [Two Gentlemen]; loyaute m'oblige [Fr.]; loyaute n'a honte [Fr.]; what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? [Henry VI].

940. Improbity — N. improbity†; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace &c (disrepute) 874; fraud &c (deception) 545; lying &c 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides [Lat.], Punica fides [Lat.]; infidelity; faithlessness &c adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal. breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition†, disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostasy &c (tergiversation) 607; nonobservance &c 773. shabbiness &c adj.; villainy, villany†; baseness &c adj.; abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling. perfidy; perfidiousness &c adj.; treachery, double dealing; unfairness &c adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor &c (flattery) 933. V. be dishonest &c adj.; play false; break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle &c (lie) 544; live by one's wits, sail near the wind. disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy. Adj. dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent &c 545; knavish; disgraceful &c (disreputable) 974; wicked &c 945. false-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving†, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured. infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard. contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one. low-minded, low-thoughted†; base-minded. undignified, indign†; unbecoming, unbeseeming†, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem [Lat.], beneath one's dignity; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly†, unchivalric†, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious. corrupt, venal; debased, mongrel. faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal; untrustworthy; trustless, trothless†; lost to shame, dead to honor; barratrous. Adv. dishonestly &c adj.; mala fide [Lat.], like a thief in the night, by crooked paths. Int. O tempora!†, O mores!, [Cicero]. Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges [Lat.] [Tacitus].

941. Knave — N. knave, rogue; Scapin†, rascal; Lazarillo de Tormes; bad man &c 949; blackguard &c 949; barrater†, barrator†; shyster [U.S.]. traitor, betrayer, archtraitor†, conspirator, Judas, Catiline; reptile, serpent, snake in the grass, wolf in sheep's clothing, sneak, Jerry Sneak, squealer [Slang], tell-tale, mischief-maker; trimmer, fence-sitter, renegade &c (tergiversation) 607; truant, recreant; sycophant &c (servility) 886.

942. Disinterestedness — N. disinterestedness &c adj.; generosity; liberality, liberalism; altruism; benevolence &c 906; elevation, loftiness of purpose, exaltation, magnanimity; chivalry, chivalrous spirit; heroism, sublimity. self-denial, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, self-immolation, self-control &c (resolution) 604; stoicism, devotion, martyrdom, suttee. labor of love. V. be disinterested &c adj.; make a sacrifice, lay one's head on the block; put oneself in the place of others, do as one would be done by, do unto others as we would men should do unto us. Adj. disinterested; unselfish; self-denying, self-sacrificing, self- devoted; generous. handsome, liberal, noble, broad-minded; noble-minded, high-minded; princely, great, high, elevated, lofty, exalted, spirited, stoical, magnanimous; great-hearted, large-hearted; chivalrous, heroic, sublime. unbought, unbribed†; uncorrupted &c (upright) 939. Phr. non vobis solum [Lat.].

943. Selfishness — N. selfishness &c adj.; self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre [Fr.], &c (vanity) 880; nepotism. worldliness &c adj.; world wisdom. illiberality; meanness &c adj.. time-pleaser, time-server; tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi [Lat.], foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer. V. be selfish &c adj.; please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself; consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure; look after one's own interest; feather one's nest; take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell. Adj. selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self†, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical†. illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous &c 819. unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly- minded; worldly-wise; timeserving†. interested; alieni appetens sui profusus [Lat.]. Adv. ungenerously &c adj.; to gain some private ends, from interested motives. Phr. apres nous le deluge [Fr.].

944. Virtue — N. virtue; virtuousness &c adj.; morality; moral rectitude; integrity &c (probity) 939; nobleness &c 873. morals; ethics &c (duty) 926; cardinal virtues. merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control &c (resolution) 604; self-denial &c (temperance) 953. well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence &c 946. V. be virtuous &c adj.; practice virtue &c n.; do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise &c 926; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right path. set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best behavior. Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful†, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right- minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled†. exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike. Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito [Lat.]. Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Lat.] [Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht [G.]; virtue the greatest of all monarchies [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; virtus vincit invidiam [Lat.].

945. Vice — N. vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness &c adj.; iniquity, peccability†, demerit; sin, Adam†; old Adam†, offending Adam†. immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy†, dophagy†, exophagy†; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity†, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality &c (malevolence) 907; corruption &c (debasement) 659; knavery &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.]; profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. infirmity; weakness &c adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot. lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den†; gusto picaresco [It]. fault, crime; criminality &c (guilt) 947. sinner &c 949. [Resorts] brothel &c 961; gambling house &c 621; joint [Slang], opium den, shooting gallery, crack house. V. be vicious &c adj.; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself†, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo†, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue &c 944; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats. render vicious &c adj.; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt &c (degrade) 659. Adj. vicious; sinful; sinning &c v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous†, undutiful. unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores [Lat.], indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless†; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic. base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous†, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed. Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike†, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish. miscreated†, misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved. evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent &c 907; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity. incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible &c (guilty) 947. unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible†. weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading. Adv. wrong; sinfully &c adj.; without excuse. Int. O tempora!†, O mores!, Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]; genus est mortis male vivere [Lat.] [Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Lat.] [Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus [Lat.]; the trail of the serpent is over them all [Moore]; to sanction vice and hunt decorum down [Bryon].

946. Innocence — N. innocence; guiltlessness &c adj.; incorruption, impeccability. clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil]. innocent, lamb, dove. V. be innocent &c adj.; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Lat.] [Horace]. acquit &c 970; exculpate &c (vindicate) 937. Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty†; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia [Lat.]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled &c 939; unhardened†, Saturnian; Arcadian &c (artless) 703 [Obs.]. inculpable, unculpable†; unblamed, unblamable†; blameless, unfallen†, inerrable†, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable†, irreprehensible†; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable†; venial &c 937. harmless; inoffensive, innoxious†, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; more sinned against than sinning [Lear]. virtuous &c 944; unreproved†, unimpeached, unreproached†. Adv. innocently &c adj.; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience. Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].

947. Guilt — N. guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness†; deviation from rectitude &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.]; sinfulness &c (vice) 945. misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas [Fr.], peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break! [U.S.], capital crime, delictum [Lat.]. offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony. enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; deed without a name [Macbeth]. corpus delicti. Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable†, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable†; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable. Adv. in flagrante delicto [Lat.]; red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar. Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit [Lat.] [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Lat.] [Horace]; O would the deed were good! [Richard II]; responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Lat.] [Juvenal]; so many laws argues so many sins [Paradise Lost].

948. Good Man — N. good man, honest man, worthy. good woman, perfect lady, Madonna. model, paragon &c (perfection) 650; good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent &c 946; saint &c (piety) 987; benefactor &c 912; philanthropist &c 910; Aristides†; noble liver†, pattern. brick [Slang], trump [Slang], gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the rough, rough diamond, ugly duckling†. salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men. Phr. si sic omnes! [Lat.]

949. Bad Man — N. bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer &c 913; sinner; the wicked &c 945; bad example. villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash†, caitiff†; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin; tiger†, monster; devil &c (demon) 980; devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell†. bad woman, jade, Jezebel. scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag. roué [Fr.], rake; Sadist; skeesicks [Slang], skeezix [U.S.]; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee [Fr.], vaurien†, mauvais sujet [Fr.], loose fish, sad dog; rounder [Slang]; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal &c 818. rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother [Coll.], ruffian, bully, meanie [Joc.]; Jonathan Wild; hangman. incendiary, arsonist, fire bug [U.S.]. thief &c 792; murderer, terrorist &c 361. [person who violates the criminal law] culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp [Coll.]; disorderly person, misdemeanant [Law]; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon, (convicted criminal); criminal; convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender. blackguard, polisson†, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion†; cullion†, mean wretch, varlet, kern†, ame-de-boue [Fr.], drole†; cur, dog, hound†, whelp†, mongrel†; lown†, loon, runnion†, outcast, vagabond; rogue &c (knave) 941; ronian†; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo†. Int. sirrah!†, Phr. Acherontis pabulum†; gibier de potence [Fr.].

950. Penitence — N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse; regret &c 833. self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience†, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature†. acknowledgment, confession &c (disclosure) 529; apology &c 952; recantation &c 607; penance &c 952; resipiscence†. awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae [Lat.], stool of repentance, cuttystool†. penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man [Coleridge]. V. repent, be sorry for; be penitent &c adj.; rue; regret &c 833; think better of; recant &c 607; knock under &c (submit) 725; plead guilty; sing miserere [Lat.], sing de profundis [Lat.]; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529; humble oneself; beg pardon &c (apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952; learn by experience. Adj. penitent; repenting &c v.; repentant, contrite; conscience- smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing, self-convicted. penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed, reborn; not hardened; unhardened†. Adv. mea culpa. Phr. peccavi; erubuit [Lat.]; salva res est [Lat.] [Terence]; Tu l'as voulu [Fr.], Georges Dandin; and wet his grave with my repentant tears [Richard III].

951. Impenitence — N. impenitence, irrepentance†, recusance†; lack of contrition. hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy. V. be impenitent &c adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy. Adj. impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared, recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless†. lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable. unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented†, unreclaimed†, unatoned.

952. Atonement — N. atonement, reparation; compromise, composition; compensation &c 30; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress. amends, apology, amende honorable†, satisfaction; peace offering, sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice. penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation, lustration†; purgation, purgatory. V. atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt. set one's house in order, wipe off old scores, make matters up; pay the forfeit, pay the penalty. apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable [Fr.], give satisfaction; come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's marrow bones.

4. MORAL PRACTICE

953. Temperance — N. temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness. forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control &c (resolution) 604. frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence; abstinence, abstemiousness; Encratism†, prohibition; system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism. vegetarian; Pythagorean, gymnosophist†. teetotaler &c 958; abstainer; designated driver; Encratite†, fruitarian†, hydropot†. V. be temperate &c adj.; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare, swear off. know when one has had enough, know one's limit. take the pledge, go on the wagon. Adj. temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured &c (sufficient) 639. on the wagon, on the water wagon. [Locations where alcoholic beverages are prohibited] dry. Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal. Phr. appetitus rationi obediant [Lat.] [Cicero]; l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la raison [Rousseau]; trahit sua quemque voluptas [Lat.] [Vergil].

954. Intemperance — N. intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism†; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living. indulgence; high living, wild living, inabstinence†, self- indulgence; voluptuousness &c adj.; epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit. dissipation; licentiousness &c adj.; debauchery; crapulence†. revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much. Circean cup. [drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass [Coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [Coll.]. V. be intemperate &c adj.; indulge, exceed; live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog; give a loose to indulgence &c n.; wallow in voluptuousness &c n.; plunge into dissipation. revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper. Adj. intemperate, inabstinent†; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched. brutish, crapulous†, swinish, piggish. Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed. Phr. being full of supper and distempering draughts [Othello].

954a. Sensualist — N. Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine &c 962; hedonist; tragalist†.

955. Asceticism — N. asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism†; cynicism†, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism†. mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance &c 952; fasting &c 956; martyrdom. ascetic; anchoret†, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos†; hermit &c (recluse) 893; puritan, sabbatarian†, cynic, sanyasi†, yogi. Adj. ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over-religious; acerbic.

956. Fasting — N. fasting; xerophagy†; famishment, starvation. fast, jour maigre [Fr.]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima†; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre [Fr.], short commons, Barmecide feast†; short rations. V. fast, starve, clem†, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey†; make two bites of a cherry. Adj. lenten, quadragesimal†; unfed†; starved &c v.; half-starved; fasting &c v.; hungry &c 865.

957. Gluttony — N. gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness &c adj.; voracity. epicurism; good living, high living; edacity†, gulosity†, crapulence†; guttling†, guzzling; pantophagy†. good cheer, blow out; feast &c (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de cuisine [Fr.]. epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius†, gastronome; gourmet &c 954.1, 868. v.. gormandize, gorge; overgorge†, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle†, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp &c (swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of house and home. have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork &c (appetite) 865. pamper. Adj. gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c v.; edacious†, omnivorous, crapulent†, swinish. avaricious &c 819; selfish &c 918. pampered; overfed, overgorged†. Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Lat.] [Horace].

958. Sobriety — N. sobriety; teetotalism. temperance &c 953. water-drinker; hydropot†; prohibitionist; teetotaler, teetotalist; abstainer, Good Templar, band of hope. V. take the pledge. Adj. sober, sober as a judge.

959. Drunkenness — N. drunkenness &c adj.; intemperance; drinking &c v.; inebriety†, inebriation; ebriety†, ebriosity†; insobriety; intoxication; temulency†, bibacity†, wine bibbing; comtation†, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender [U.S.]. oinomania†, dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism; mania a potu [Fr.]. drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin [Slang], grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer &c (beverage) 298; aguardiente†; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]; chain lightning [Slang], champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling†; highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh [Ire.], usquebaugh [Scot.], whisky, xeres†. drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber†, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker [Slang], sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal†, Bacchante†; devotee to Bacchus†; bum [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter. V. get drunk, be drunk &c adj.; see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse [Fr.], guzzle, swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus†; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill [Slang], drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off &c (drink up) 298; go to the alehouse, go to the public house. make one drunk &c adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle†, get into one's head. Adj. drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious†, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication &c n.; temulent†, temulentive†; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou†, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant†, glorious; potulent†; squiffy [Slang]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed [Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled†, sewed up [Slang], lushy [Slang], nappy†, muddled, muzzy†, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous†, dead drunk. woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed. inter pocula†; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table. drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow. drunken, bibacious†, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle; toping &c v.. Phr. nunc est bibendum [Lat.]; Bacchus ever fair and young [Dryden]; drink down all unkindness [Merry Wives]; O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains [Othello].

960. Purity — N. purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity†, pucelage†, virginity. vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude. Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque [Lat.]; simon-pure; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic. virgin, unsullied; cherry [Coll.]. Phr. as chaste as unsunn'd snow [Cymbeline]; a soul as white as heaven [Beaumont and Fletcher]; 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity [Milton]; to the pure all things are pure [Shelley].