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

penultimate; last but one, last but two, &c unbegun, uncommenced † ; fresh.
Adv. finally &c adj.; in fine; at the last; once for all.
Phr. as high as Heaven and as deep as hell [Beaumont and Fletcher]; deficit omne quod
nascitur [Lat.] [Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin [Fr.]; finem respice
[Lat.]; ultimus Romanorum [Lat.].
68. Middle -- N. middle, midst, mediety † , mean &c 29; medium, middle term; center &c
222, mid-course &c 628; mezzo termine [It]; juste milieu &c 628 [Fr.]; halfway house,
nave, navel, omphalos † ; nucleus, nucleolus.
equidistance † , bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff; intermediate &c
228.
Adj. middle, medial, mesial [Med.], mean, mid, median, average; middlemost, midmost;
mediate; intermediate &c (interjacent) 228; equidistant; central &c 222; mediterranean,
equatorial; homocentric.
Adv. in the middle; midway, halfway; midships † , amidships, in medias res.
69. [Uninterrupted sequence.] Continuity -- N. continuity; consecution, consecutiveness
&c adj.; succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain; catenation,
concatenation; scale; gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.
procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.
pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of
ancestors; strain.
rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade.
V. follow in a series, form a series &c n.; fall in.
arrange in a series, collate &c n.; string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort,
tabulate.
Adj. continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial, successive;
immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row &c n.; uninterrupted,
unintermitting † ; unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence) 604.1; perennial, evergreen;
constant.
Adv. continuously &c adj.; seriatim; in a line &c n.; in succession, in turn; running,
gradually, step by step, gradatim [Lat.], at a stretch; in file, in column, in single file, in
Indian file.
70. [Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity -- N. discontinuity; disjunction &c 44;
anacoluthon † ; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap &c (interval) 198;
solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork;
intermission; alternation &c (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.
V. be discontinuous &c adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate.
discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose &c
228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect &c (disjoin) 44; dissever.
Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive † , broken, interrupted, dicousu [Fr.]; disconnected,
unconnected; discrete, disjunctive; fitful &c (irregular) 139; spasmodic, desultory;
intermitting, occasional &c v., intermittent; alternate; recurrent &c (periodic) 138.
Adv. at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts;
skippingly † , per saltum [Lat.]; longo intervallo [It].