ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adv. on the contrary, per contra.
469. Qualification -- N. qualification, limitation, modification, coloring.
allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation.
condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine
qua non [Lat.]; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo,
saving clause; discount &c 813; restriction; fine print.
V. qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow,
temper.
waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475; equivocate (sophistry) 477.
depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154.
allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate.
moderate, temper, season, leaven.
take exception.
Adj. qualifying &c v.; qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged; conditional; exceptional
&c (unconformable) 83.
hypothetical &c (supposed) 514; contingent &c (uncertain) 475.
Adv. provided, provided that, provided always; if, unless, but, yet; according as;
conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of &c (theoretically) 514; with
the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events.
approximately &c 197, 17; in a limited degree (smallness) 32; somewhat, sort of,
something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak.
with grains of allowance, cum grano salis [Lat.], with a grain of salt; exceptis
excipiendis [Lat.]; wind and weather permitting; if possible &c 470.
subject to, conditioned upon; with this proviso &c n..
Phr. if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise; catch- 22.
Degrees of Evidence
470. Possibility -- N. possibility, potentiality; what may be, what is possible &c adj.;
compatibility &c (agreement) 23.
practicability, feasibility; practicableness &c adj.. contingency, chance &c 156.
V. be possible &c adj.; stand a chance; admit of, bear.
render possible &c adj.; put in the way of.
Adj. possible; in the cards, on the dice; in posse, within the bounds of possibility,
conceivable, credible; compatible &c 23; likely.
practicable, feasible, performable, achievable; within reach, within measurable
distance; accessible, superable † , surmountable; attainable, obtainable; contingent &c
(doubtful) 475, (effect) 154.
barely possible, marginally possible, just possible; possible but improbably,
(improbable) 473; theoretically possible.
Adv. possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; maybe, may be, haply,
mayhap.
if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente [Lat.], D.V.; as
luck may have it.
Phr. misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent [Lat.]; the glories of the Possible are
ours [B.