N. teaching, instruction,
edification, education,
tuition,
tutorage,
tutelage, direction, guidance,
opsimathy,
qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline,
excitation,
drill, practice, book exercise,
persuasion,
proselytism,
propagandism,
propaganda,
indoctrination,
inculcation,
inoculation,
advise, explanation,
lesson,
lecture,
sermon,
apologue, parable,
discourse, prolection,
preachment, chalk talk, chautauqua, exercise, task,
curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three r's,
initiation, a, b, c,
&c (beginning) 66, elementary education, primary education, secondary education,
technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education,
propaedeutics, moral tuition,
gymnastics,
calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd,
phonics,
rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade,
score, marks, a, b, c, d, e, f, gentleman's c, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student,
theme, project
V. teach,
instruct,
educate,
edify, school, tutor,
cram, prime,
coach,
enlighten,
inculcate,
indoctrinate,
inoculate,
infuse, instill, infix,
ingraft,
infiltrate,
imbue,
impregnate, implant,
graft, sow the seeds of,
disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, "teach the young idea how to shoot", improve,
expound,
lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth,
preach,
sermonize,
moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare,
qualify,
drill, exercise, practice,
habituate, familiarize with,
nurture,
drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in,
tame,
preinstruct,
initiate,
inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head,
convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted
Adj. teaching, taught, educational,
scholastic,
academic,
doctrinal,
disciplinal,
instructive,
instructional,
didactic,
propaedeutic,
propaedeutical Phr. the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, "sermons in stones and good in everything"
N. speech, faculty of speech,
locution, talk,
parlance, verbal intercourse,
prolation, oral communication, word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle,
effusion,
oration,
recitation,
delivery, say, speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade, formal speech,
peroration,
speechifying,
soliloquy,
allocution, conversation,
salutatory,
screed,
valedictory,
oratory,
elocution, eloquence, rhetoric,
declamation,
grandiloquence,
multiloquence, burst of eloquence,
facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker,
spokesman,
prolocutor,
interlocutor,
mouthpiece,
hermes,
orator,
oratrix,
oratress,
demosthenes, cicero,
rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator,
speechmaker,
patterer,
improvisatore V. speak of, say, utter,
pronounce, deliver, give utterance to, utter forth, pour forth,
breathe, let fall, come out with, rap out, blurt out have on one's lips, have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue, break silence, open one's lips, open one's mouth, lift one's voice, raise one's voice, give the tongue, wag the tongue, talk, outspeak, put in a word or two, hold forth, make a speech, deliver a speech,
speechify,
harangue,
declaim,
stump,
flourish,
recite,
lecture,
sermonize,
discourse, be on one's legs, have one's say, say one's say,
spout,
rant,
rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage,
expatiate, speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump,
soliloquize, tell, speak to, talk together, be eloquent, have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab, pass one's lips, escape one's lips, fall from the lips, fall from the mouth
Adj. speaking &c, spoken, oral,
lingual,
phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken,
eloquent,
elocutionary,
oratorical,
rhetorical,
declamatory,
grandiloquent,
talkative,
ciceronian,
nuncupative,
tullian Adv. orally, by word of mouth,
viva voce, from the lips of
Phr. quoth he, said he &c, "action is eloquence", "pour the full tide of eloquence along", "she speaks poignards and every word stabs", "speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken ; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time
N. conversation,
interlocution,
collocution,
colloquy,
converse,
confabulation, talk,
discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue,
trialogue, causerie,
chat,
chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk,
tattle,
gossip,
tittle-tattle,
babble,
babblement, tripotage,
cackle,
prittle-prattle,
cancan,
on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference,
parley,
interview,
audience,
pourparler,
tete-a-tete, reception,
conversazione, congress,
powwow, hall of audience,
durbar,
palaver,
debate,
logomachy, war of words,
gossip,
tattler, paul pry,
tabby,
chatterer,
interlocutor,
conversationist,
dialogist, "the feast of reason and the flow of soul", mollia tempora fandi
V. talk together,
converse,
confabulate, hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation, put in a word, shine in conversation, bandy words,
parley,
palaver,
chat,
gossip,
tattle,
prate,
powwow, discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with, hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse, talk it over, be closeted with, talk with one in private,
tete-a-tete Phr. "with thee conversing i forget all time"
N. dissertation, treatise, essay,
thesis,
theme,
monograph, tract,
tractate,
tractation,
discourse, memoir,
disquisition,
lecture,
sermon,
homily,
pandect,
excursus, commentary, review,
critique, criticism, article, leader, leading article,
editorial, running commentary, investigation, study, discussion, exposition,
commentator, critic,
essayist,
pamphleteer V. expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject, treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject, hold forth, discourse, delve into
Rite Roget’s Thesaurus §998 N. rite, ceremony, ritual,
liturgy,
ceremonial,
ordinance,
observance, function, duty, form,
formulary,
solemnity,
sacrament,
incantation, service,
psalmody,
ministration, preaching,
preachment,
predication,
sermon,
homily,
lecture,
discourse, pastoral, baptism,
christening,
chrism,
circumcision, baptismal regeneration,
font,
confirmation, imposition of hands, laying on of hands,
ordination,
excommunication, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, bris,
eucharist, lord's supper, communion, the sacrament, the holy sacrament,
celebration, high celebration, missa cantata,
asperges,
offertory,
introit,
consecration,
consubstantiation,
transubstantiation, real presence, elements, mass, high mass, low mass, dry mass,
matrimony, burial, visitation of the sick, seven sacraments,
impanation, subpanation,
extreme unction,
viaticum, invocation of saints,
canonization,
transfiguration, auricular confession,
maceration,
flagellation, sackcloth and ashes,
penance, telling of beads,
processional,
thurification, incense,
holy water,
aspersion, relics,
rosary, beads,
reliquary, host, cross,
rood,
crucifix,
pax,
pyx,
agnus dei,
censer,
thurible,
patera, eileton, holy grail, prayer machine, prayer wheel,
sangraal, urceus,
ritualism,
ceremonialism,
sabbatism,
sabbatarianism,
ritualist,
sabbatarian,
holyday, feast, fast, sabbath,
pentecost,
advent,
christmas,
epiphany, lent,
passion week,
holy week, easter, easter sunday,
whitsuntide,
agape,
ascension day,
candlemas,
ash wednesday,
good friday, holy thursday,
lammas,
martinmas,
michaelmas, all saint's day, all souls' day ramadan, ramazan, bairam &c, &c. passover, shabuoth, yom kippur, day of atonement, rosh hashana, new year, hanukkah, chanukkah, feast of lights,
purim, feast of lots
V. perform service, do duty, minister,
officiate,
baptize, dip,
sprinkle,
anoint,
confirm, lay hands on, give the sacrament, administer the sacrament, administer extreme unction, hear confession, administer holy penance,
shrive,
excommunicate, ban with bell book and candle, attend services, attend mass, go to mass, hear mass, take the sacrament, receive the sacrament, receive communion, attend the sacrament, partake of the sacrament, partake of communion, communicate, receive extreme unction,
confess, go to confession, receive penance,
anele,
preach,
sermonize,
predicate,
lecture Phr. "what art thou, thou idol ceremony?"
