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

Phr. the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre [Fr.]; bis peccare in bello non licet
[Lat.]; jus gladii [Lat.]; my voice is still for war [Addison]; 'tis well that war is so
terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it [Robert E.
Lee]; my sentence is for open war [Milton]; pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious
war [Othello]; the cannons have their bowels full of wrath [King John]; the cannons aspit
forth their iron indignation [King John]; the fire-eyed maid of smoky war [Henry IV];
silent leges inter arma [Lat.] [Cicero]; si vis pacem para bellum [Lat.].
723. Pacification -- N. pacification, conciliation; reconciliation, reconcilement; shaking
of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment; terms, compromise; amnesty, deed
of release.
peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of peace.
truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down; breathing
time; convention; modus vivendi [Lat.]; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire [Fr.],
cartel † .
hollow truce, pax in bello [Lat.]; drawn battle.
V. pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay &c (moderate) 174; reconcile, propitiate, placate,
conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore
harmony, bring to terms.
settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences; set
straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites [Lat.]; come to an understanding,
come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make matters up; shake hands; mend one's
fences [U.S.].
raise a siege, lift a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet, lay
down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of peace, close the
temple of Janus; keep the peace &c (concord) 714; be pacified &c; come round.
Adj. conciliatory; composing &c v.; pacified &c v..
Phr. requiescat in pace [Lat.].
724. Mediation -- N. mediation, mediatorship † , mediatization † ; intervention,
interposition, interference, intermeddling, intercession; arbitration; flag of truce &c 723;
good offices, peace offering; parley, negotiation; diplomatics † , diplomacy; compromise
&c 774.
[person who mediates] mediator, arbitrator, intercessor, peacemaker, makepeace † ,
negotiator, go-between; diplomatist &c (consignee) 758; moderator; propitiator; umpire.
V. mediate, mediatize † ; intercede, interpose, interfere, intervene; step in, negotiate; meet
halfway; arbitrate; magnas componere lites [Lat.].
bargain &c 794
Adj. mediatory.
725. Submission -- N. submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience &c 743.
surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown † .
obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion † , courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.
V. succumb, submit, yeild, bend, resign, defer to.
lay down one's arms, deliver up one's arms; lower colors, haul down colors, strike
one's flag, strike colors.