Roget's Thesaurus Part 97

V. prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop[Law]; bar; debar &c. (hinder) 706, forefend.

keep in, keep within bounds; restrain &c. 751; cohibit[obs3], withhold, limit, circ.u.mscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns.

Adj. prohibitive, prohibitory; proscriptive; restrictive, exclusive; forbidding &c. v.

prohibited &c. v.; not permitted &c. 760; unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of; illegal &c. 964; unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale.

Adv. on no account &c. (no) 536.

Int. forbid it heaven! &c. (deprecation) 766.

hands off! keep off! hold! stop! desist! cease and desist! avast!

Phr. that will never do; don't you dare; forget it; don't even think about doing it;"go ahead; make my day [ironical, threatening]" [Dirty Harry].

#762. Consent.-- N. consent; a.s.sent &c. 488; acquiescence; approval &c. 931; compliance, agreement, concession; yieldance , yieldingness[obs3]; accession, acknowledgment, acceptance, agnition .

settlement, ratification, confirmation, adjustment.

permit &c. (permission) 760; promise &c. 768.

V. consent; a.s.sent &c. 488; yield a.s.sent, admit, allow, concede, grant, yield; come round, come over; give into, acknowledge, agnize[obs3], give consent, comply with, acquiesce, agree to, fall in with, accede, accept, embrace an offer, close with, take at one's word, have no objection.

satisfy, meet one's wishes, settle, come to terms &c. 488; not refuse &c. 764; turn a willing ear &c. (willingness) 602; jump at; deign, vouchsafe; promise &c. 768.

Adj. consenting &c. v.; squeezable; agreed &c. (a.s.sent) 488; unconditional.

Adv. OK, yes &c. (a.s.sent) 488; by all means &c. (willingly) 602; no problem; if you please, as you please; be it so, so be it, well and good, of course; please do; don't hesitate.

Phr. chi tace accousente[It][obs3].

#763. Offer.-- N. offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture; proposal, proposition; motion, invitation; candidature; offering &c. (gift) 784.

V. offer, proffer, present, tender; bid; propose, move; make a motion, make advances; start; invite, hold out, place in one's way, put forward.

hawk about; offer for sale &c. 796; press &c. (request) 765; lay at one's feet.

offer oneself, present oneself; volunteer, come forward, be a candidate; stand for, bid for; seek; be at one's service; go a begging; bribe &c. (give) 784.

Adj. offering, offered &c. v.; in the market, for sale, to let, disengaged, on hire.

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#764. Refusal.-- N. refusal, rejection; noncompliance, incompliance[obs3]; denial; declining &c. v.; declension; declinature[obs3]; peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal; repulse, rebuff; discountenance.

recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer; dissent &c. 489; revocation &c. 756.

V. refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down; nill, negative; refuse one's a.s.sent, withhold one's a.s.sent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse; grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pa.s.s [at cards].

be deaf to; dismiss, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon; set one's face against, discountenance, not hear of, have nothing to do with, wash one's hands of, stand aloof, forswear, set aside, cast behind one; not yield an inch &c. (obstinacy) 606.

resist, cross; not grant &c. 762; repel, repulse, shut the door in one's face, slam the door in one's face; rebuff; send back, send to the right about, send away with a flea in the ear; deny oneself, not be at home to; discard, spurn, &c. (repudiate) 610; rescind &c. (revoke) 756; disclaim, protest; dissent &c. 489.

Adj. refusing &c. v.; restive, restiff ; recusant; uncomplying, unconsenting; not willing to hear of, deaf to.

refused &c. v.; ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible.

Adv. no &c. 536; on no account, not for the world; no thank you, thanks but no thanks.

Phr. non possumus[Lat]; your humble servant[ironically]; bien oblige[Fr]; not on your life [U.S.]; no way; not even if you beg on your knees.

#765. Request.-- N. request, requisition; claim &c. (demand) 741; pet.i.tion, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.

motion, overture, application, canva.s.s, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition.

orison &c. (worship) 990; incantation &c. (spell) 993.

mendicancy; asking, begging &c. v.; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration[obs3], imploration[obs3], obsecration[obs3], obtestation[obs3], invocation, interpellation.

V. request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, pet.i.tion, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a pet.i.tion, address a pet.i.tion, prefer a pet.i.tion, put up a pet.i.tion; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim &c. (demand) 741; offer up prayers &c.

(worship) 990; whistle for.

beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest[obs3]; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate[obs3], imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate[obs3], mump[obs3], cadge, beg one's bread.

dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.

bespeak, canva.s.s, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for &c.

(offer) 763; publish the banns.

Adj. requesting &c. v.; precatory[obs3]; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory[obs3].

importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.

Adv. prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.

Int. for G.o.d's sake! for heaven's sake! for goodness' sake! for mercy's sake!

Phr. Dieu vous garde[Fr]; dirigenos Domine[Lat]; would you be so kind as to.

#766. [Negative request.] Deprecation.-- N. deprecation, expostulation; intercession, mediation, protest, remonstrance.

V. deprecate, protest, expostulate, enter a protest, intercede for; remonstrate.

Adj. deprecatory, expostulatory[obs3], intercessory, mediatorial[obs3].

deprecated, protested.

unsought, unbesought[obs3]; unasked &c. (see ask &c. 765).

Int. cry you mercy! G.o.d forbid! forbid it Heaven! Heaven forefend, Heaven forbid! far be it from! hands off! &c. (prohibition) 761; please don't.

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#767. Pet.i.tioner.-- N. pet.i.tioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant, supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, compet.i.tor, bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer[obs3]; seeker.

beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper[obs3], st.u.r.dy beggar, cadger; hotel runner, runner, steerer [U.S.], tout, touter[obs3].

[poor person] pauper, homeless person, hobo, b.u.m, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty) 804; hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case.

canva.s.ser, bagman &c.758; salesman.

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#768. Promise.-- N. promise, undertaking, word, troth, plight, pledge, parole, word of honor, vow; oath &c. (affirmation) 535; profession, a.s.surance, warranty, guarantee, insurance, obligation; contract &c. 769; stipulation.

engagement, preengagement; affiance; betroth, betrothal, betrothment.

V. promise; give a promise &c. n.; undertake, engage; make an engagement, form an engagement; enter into an engagement, enter on an engagement; bind oneself, tie oneself, pledge oneself, commit oneself, take upon oneself; vow; swear &c. (affirm) 535, give one's word, pa.s.s one's word, pledge one's word, plight one's word, give one's honor, pa.s.s one's honor, pledge one's honor, plight one's honor, give credit, pa.s.s credit, pledge credit, plight credit, give troth, pa.s.s troth, pledge troth, plight troth; betroth, plight faith.

a.s.sure, warrant, guarantee; covenant &c. 769; attest &c. (bear witness) 467.

hold out an expectation; contract an obligation; become bound to, become sponsor for; answer for, be answerable for; secure; give security &c. 771; underwrite.

adjure, administer an oath, put to one's oath, swear a witness.

Adj. promising &c. v.; promissory; votive; under hand and seal, upon oath.

promised &c. v.; affianced, pledged, bound; committed, compromised; in for it.

Adv. as one's head shall answer for.

Phr. in for a penny in for a pound; ex voto[Lat]; gage d'amour.

#768a. Release from engagement.-- N. release &c. (liberation) 750.

Adj. absolute; unconditional &c. (free) 748.

#769. Compact.-- N. compact, contract, agreement, bargain; affidation[obs3]; pact, paction[obs3]; bond, covenant, indenture; bundobast[obs3], deal.

stipulation, settlement, convention; compromise, cartel.

Protocol, treaty, concordat, Zollverein[Ger], Sonderbund[Ger], charter, Magna Charta[Lat], Progmatic Sanction, customs union, free trade region; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT; most favored nation status.

negotiation &c. (bargaining) 794; diplomacy &c. (mediation) 724; negotiator &c. (agent) 758.

ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil[Lat], signet.

V. contract, covenant, agree for; engage &c. (promise) 768.

treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms; bargain &c. (barter) 794.

make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an understanding; compromise &c. 774; set at rest; close, close with; conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite; endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal &c. (attest) 467; indent.

take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle.

Adj. agreed &c. v.; conventional; under hand and seal.

Phr. caveat emptor.

#770. Conditions.-- N. conditions, terms; articles, articles of agreement; memorandum.

clauses, provisions; proviso &c. (qualification) 469; covenant, stipulation, obligation, ultimatum, sine qua non; casus foederris[Lat].

V. make terms, come to terms &c. (contract) 769; make it a condition, stipulate, insist upon, make a point of; bind, tie up.

Adj. conditional, provisional, guarded, fenced, hedged in.