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

1. Acts of Volition
600. Will -- N. will, volition, conation † , velleity; liberum arbitrium [Lat.]; will and
pleasure, free will; freedom &c 748; discretion; option &c (choice) 609; voluntariness † ;
spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality.
pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind &c (inclination) 602; intention &c 620;
predetermination &c 611; selfcontrol &c; determination &c (resolution) 604; force of
will.
V. will, list; see fit, think fit; determine &c (resolve) 604; enjoin; settle &c (choose) 609;
volunteer.
have a will of one's own; do what one chooses &c (freedom) 748; have it all.one's own
way; have one's will, have one's own way.
use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own
course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own
authority; originate &c (cause) 153.
Adj. voluntary, volitional, willful; free &c 748; optional; discretional, discretionary;
volitient † , volitive † .
minded &c (willing) 602; prepense &c (predetermined) 611 [Obs.]; intended &c 620;
autocratic; unbidden &c (bid) &c 741; spontaneous; original &c (casual) 153;
unconstrained.
Adv. voluntarily &c adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte [Fr.], a discretion; al piacere [It];
ad libitum, ad arbitrium [Lat.]; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito
[It].
of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu [Lat.], suo motu [Lat.], ex
meromotu [Lat.]; out of one's won head; by choice &c 609; purposely &c (intentionally)
620; deliberately &c 611.
Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas [Lat.]; sic volo sic jubeo [Lat.]; a vostro beneplacito [It];
beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere [Lat.]; Deus vult [Lat.]; was man nicht kann
meiden muss man willig leiden [G.].
601. Necessity -- N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate
proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.
necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c 744; subjection &c 749; stern
necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron
necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be.
destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination;
preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness &c adj.; spell &c 993.
star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of
fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice.
last shift, last resort; dernier ressort [Fr.]; pis aller &c (substitute) 147 [Fr.];
necessaries &c (requirement) 630.
necessarian † , necessitarian † ; fatalist; automaton.
V. lie under a necessity; befated † , be doomed, be destined &c, in for, under the necessity
of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate &c n.. to be pushed to the wall to be
driven into a corner, to be unable to help.