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. restraint,
hindrance,
coercion,
cohibition,
constraint,
repression, suppression,
discipline, control, confinement,
durance,
duress, imprisonment,
incarceration, coarctation|,
entombment,
mancipation, durance vile,
limbo, captivity,
blockade, arrest,
arrestation,
custody, keep, care, charge, ward,
restringency,
curb,
lettres de cachet,
limitation,
restriction, protection,
monopoly,
prohibition, prisoner, repressionist
V. restrain, check, put under restraint, lay under restraint, enthral,
enthrall, inthral,
inthrall, bethral,
bethrall, restrict,
debar,
constrain,
coerce,
curb, control, hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds, hold in leash, hold in leading strings,
withhold, keep under, repress,
suppress,
smother, pull in, rein in, hold, hold fast, keep a tight hand on,
prohibit,
inhibit,
cohibit,
enchain,
fasten,
fetter,
shackle,
entrammel,
bridle,
muzzle,
hopple,
gag,
pinion,
manacle,
handcuff, tie one's hands,
hobble, bind hand and foot,
swathe,
swaddle, pin down,
tether,
picket, tie down, tie up, secure, forge fetters, disable, hamstring (incapacitate) 158, confine, shut up, shut in, clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up, hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in, impound, pen,
coop, inclose,
cage,
incage,
encage, close the door upon,
cloister, imprison,
immure,
incarcerate,
entomb, clap under hatches, lay under hatches, put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat, throw into prison, cast into prison, put into bilboes, arrest, take up, take charge of, take into custody, take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive,
captivate, lead captive, lead into captivity, send to prison, commit to prison, commit, give in charge, give in custody,
subjugate Adj. restrained,
constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive,
coactive, stiff,
restringent,
strait-laced,
hidebound,
barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, "cabined cribbed confined", in lob's pound, laid by the heels
N. punishment,
punition,
chastisement,
chastening, correction,
castigation,
discipline,
infliction, trial, judgment, penalty,
retribution,
thunderbolt,
nemesis,
requital,
penology, retributive justice,
lash,
scaffold, imprisonment,
transportation,
banishment,
expulsion, exile, involuntary exile,
ostracism, penal servitude, hard labor,
galleys, beating,
flagellation,
fustigation,
gantlet,
strappado,
estrapade,
bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear, blow,
stripe,
cuff,
kick,
buffet,
pummel,
slap, slap in the face,
wipe,
douse, coup de grace,
torture,
rack,
picket,
picketing,
dragonnade, capital punishment, execution, lethal injection, the gas chamber, hanging, electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines,
decapitation,
decollation, garrotte, garrotto,
crucifixion, impalement, firing squad,
martyrdom,
auto-da-fe, noyade, happy dispatch,
hara-kiri,
seppuku, drinking the hemlock
V. punish,
chastise,
chasten,
castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice,
cowhide, lambaste*, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash,
smite,
slap, slap the face,
smack,
cuff, box the ears,
spank,
thwack,
thump, beat, lay on,
swinge,
buffet,
thresh,
thrash,
pummel,
drub, leather,
trounce, sandbag,
baste,
belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing,
trim, warm,
wipe, tund,
cob,
bang,
strap,
comb,
lash,
lick,
larrup,
wallop,
whop,
flog,
scourge,
whip,
birch, cane, give the stick,
switch,
flagellate,
horsewhip,
bastinado,
towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket,
fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather,
pelt, stone,
lapidate,
masthead,
keelhaul,
execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows,
behead,
decapitate,
guillotine,
decollate,
hang, turn off,
gibbet,
bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot,
decimate, burn, break on the wheel,
crucify,
empale, impale,
flay,
lynch,
electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber,
torture, put on, put to the rack,
picket,
banish, exile, transport,
expel,
ostracize,
rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar,
disbench, strike off the roll,
unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged &c, come to the gallows, mount the gallows,
swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted,
fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad
Int. a la lanterne, phr, culpan paena premit comes, "eating the bitter bread of banishment", gravis ira regum est semper, sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo
N. worship,
adoration, devotion,
aspiration,
homage, service,
humiliation,
kneeling,
genuflection,
prostration, prayer,
invocation,
supplication,
rogation,
intercession,
orison, holy breathing, petition, collect,
litany, lord's prayer,
paternoster,
beadroll,
latria,
dulia,
hyperdulia, vigils, revival,
cult, anxious meeting, camp meeting,
ebenezer,
virginal,
thanksgiving, giving thanks, returning thanks, grace, praise,
glorification,
benediction,
doxology,
hosanna,
hallelujah, allelujah,
te deum, non nobis domine, nunc dimittis,
paean, benschen,
ave maria, o salutaris,
sanctus, the annunciation,
tersanctus,
trisagion,
psalm,
psalmody,
hymn,
plain song,
chant,
chaunt,
response,
anthem,
motet,
antiphon,
antiphony,
oblation, sacrifice, incense,
libation, burnt offering,
heave offering, votive offering,
offertory,
discipline,
self-discipline,
self-examination,
self-denial, fasting, divine service, office, duty, exercises, morning prayer, mass,
matins,
evensong,
vespers, undernsong,
tierce,
holyday, worshipper, congregation,
communicant,
celebrant V. worship, lift up the heart,
aspire,
revere,
adore, do service, pay homage, humble oneself,
kneel, bow the knee, bend the knee, fall down, fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself, bow down and worship, pray,
invoke,
supplicate, put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions,
beseech, say one's prayers, tell one's beads, return thanks, give thanks, say grace,
bless, praise,
laud,
glorify,
magnify, sing praises, give benediction, lead the choir, intone,
deacon, deacon off propitiate, offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself,
vow, offer vows, give alms, work out one's salvation, go to church, attend service, attend mass, communicate
Phr. "making their lives a prayer", ora et labora, "prayers ardent open heaven"
Int. hallelujah, allelujah,
hosanna, glory be to god, o lord, pray god that, god grant, god bless, god save, god forbid, sursum corda
