N. oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity,
maturity, decline, decay,
senility,
seniority,
eldership,
primogeniture,
archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past,
megatherium, sanskrit, tradition,
prescription, custom, immemorial usage,
common law V. be old, have had its day, have seen its day, become old, age,
fade, senesce
Adj. old, ancient,
antique, of long standing,
time-honored,
venerable, elder, eldest,
firstborn, prime, primitive,
primeval,
primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic,
paleolithic,
primordial, primordinate,
aboriginal,
diluvian,
antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian,
patriarchal,
preadamite,
paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical,
paleozoic,
preglacial,
antemundane,
archaic, classic,
medieval, pre-raphaelite,
ancestral,
black-letter,
immemorial, traditional,
prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,
inveterate, rooted,
antiquated, of other times,
rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it,
stale,
old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world,
exploded, gone out, gone by,
passe, run out,
senile, time worn,
crumbling,
secondhand, old as the hills, old as methuselah, old as adam, old as history, archeozoic, proterozoic,
paleozoic,
mesozoic,
cenozoic, precambrian,
cambrian,
ordovician, silurian,
devonian, mississippian, pennsylvanian,
permian,
triassic,
jurassic,
cretaceous, tertiary, paleogene,
neocene,
quaternary, paleocene,
eocene,
oligocene,
miocene,
pliocene,
pleistocene, recent
Adv. since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of methuselah
Phr. vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi
N. stability,
immutability, unchangeability,
&c. adj, unchangeableness|,
constancy, stable equilibrium,
immobility, soundness,
vitality,
stabiliment, stiffness,
ankylosis,
solidity,
aplomb, establishment,
fixture, rock,
pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, ethiopia's skin,
permanence,
obstinacy V. be firm, stick fast, stand firm, keep firm, remain firm, weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith, don't give in, don't buckle under, settle, establish,
stablish, ascertain, fix, set,
stabilitate, retain, keep hold, make good, make sure,
fasten, set on its legs,
float,
perpetuate, settle down, strike roots, put down roots, take root, take up one's abode, build one's house on a rock
Adj. unchangeable,
immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable,
undeviating, stable,
durable,
perennial, fixed,
steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed,
valid,
fiducial, immovable,
irremovable,
riveted, rooted, settled, established,
vested,
incontrovertible,
stereotyped, indeclinable,
tethered, anchored,
moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted,
ineradicable,
inveterate,
obstinate,
transfixed, stuck fast,
aground, high and dry,
stranded,
stuck,
jammed, unremovable,
quiescent,
deterioration,
indefeasible,
irretrievable,
intransmutable,
incommutable,
irresoluble,
irrevocable,
irreversible, reverseless,
inextinguishable,
irreducible,
indissoluble,
indissolvable,
indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible,
indeciduous,
insusceptible, insusceptible of change
Phr. littera scripta manet, present events
Habit Roget’s Thesaurus §613 N. habit,
habitude, assuetude|, assuefaction|,
wont, run, way, common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things, matter of course, beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground,
prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice,
prevalence,
observance,
conventionalism,
conventionality, mode, fashion,
vogue,
etiquette, order of the day, cry, conformity,
consuetude, dustoor, one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae, laudator temporis acti, rule, standing order,
precedent,
routine,
red-tape,
red-tapism,
pipe clay,
rut, groove,
cacoethes, bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit &c,
addiction,
trick, training, seasoning, second nature,
acclimatization, knack &c
V. be wont, fall into a rut, fall into a custom, tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten, stare super antiquas vias, move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way,
habituate,
inure,
harden, season,
caseharden,
accustom,
familiarize,
naturalize,
acclimatize, keep one's hand in, train, get into the way, get into the knack of, learn, cling to, adhere to,
repeat, acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick, addict oneself to, take to, get into, be habitual, prevail, come into use, become a habit, take root, gain upon one, grow upon one
Adj. habitual,
accustomary,
prescriptive, accustomed, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence,
consuetudinary,
wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent,
everyday, household, garden variety,
jog,
trot, well-trodden,
well-known, familiar,
vernacular,
trite,
commonplace,
conventional, regular, set, stock, established,
stereotyped, prevailing, prevalent, current, received, acknowledged, recognized,
accredited, of course, admitted, understood,
conformable,
&c. 82, according to use, according to custom, according to routine, in vogue, in fashion, in, with it, fashionable,
wont, used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to,
habituated, in the habit of,
habitue, at home in, seasoned, imbued with, devoted to, wedded to,
hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted,
ingrafted, permanent,
inveterate,
besetting,
naturalized, ingrained
Adv. habitually, always, as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards, more suo, more solito, ex more, as a rule, for the most part, usually, generally, typically, most often, most frequently
Phr. cela s'entend, abeunt studia in mores, adeo in teneris consuescere multum est, consuetudo quasi altera natura, hoc erat in more majorum, "how use doth breed a habit in a man!", magna est vis consuetudinis, morent fecerat usus
N. affections, affect, character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, temper,
temperament,
diathesis,
idiosyncrasy, cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul,
predilection, turn, natural turn of mind, bent,
bias, predisposition,
proneness,
proclivity,
propensity, propenseness,
propension, propendency|, vein,
humor,
mood, grain,
mettle, sympathy, soul, heart, breast,
bosom, inner man, heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood, heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis, secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart, inmost heart, inmost soul,
backbone, passion, pervading spirit, ruling passion, master passion,
furore, fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul, energy,
fervor, fire, force
V. have affections, possess affections, be of a character, be affected,
breathe Adj. affected, characterized, formed,
molded, cast,
attempered, tempered, framed, predisposed,
prone, inclined, having a bias, tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with, inborn,
inbred, ingrained, deep-rooted,
ineffaceable,
inveterate, pathoscopic|,
congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature,
inherent, in the grain, affective
Adv. in one's heart, at heart, heart and soul
Phr. "affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire"
