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

Phr. time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs against, race against time,
racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, time and tide wait for no man.
ad calendas Groecas [Lat.]; panting Time toileth after him in vain [Johnson]; 'gainst
the tooth of time and razure of oblivion [Contr.] [Measure for Measure]; rich with the
spoils of time [Gray]; tempus edax rerum [Lat.] [Horace]; the long hours come and go
[C.G.
Rossetti]; the time is out of joint [Hamlet]; Time rolls his ceaseless course [Scott];
Time the foe of man's dominion [Peacock]; time wasted is existence, used is life
[Young]; truditur dies die [Lat.] [Horace]; volat hora per orbem [Lat.] [Lucretius]; carpe
diem [Lat.].
107. Neverness -- N. neverness; absence of time, no time; dies non; Tib's eve; Greek
Kalends, a blue moon.
Adv. never, ne'er [Contr.]; at no time, at no period; on the second Tuesday of the week,
when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all one's born days, nevermore, sine die;
in no degree.
108. [Definite duration, or portion of time.] Period -- N. period, age, era; second, minute,
hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum † , quinquennium,
lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry † , lunation † , moon.
century, millennium; annus magnus [Lat.].
Adj. horary † ; hourly, annual &c (periodical) 138.
108a. Contingent Duration --
Adv. during pleasure, during good behavior; quamdiu se bene gesserit [Lat.].
109. [Indefinite duration.] Course -- N. corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time † ,
course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow
of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of
time, step of time, flight of time; duration &c 106.
[Indefinite time] aorist † .
V. elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly,
slip, slide, glide; run its course.
run out, expire; go by, pass by; be past &c 122.
Adj. elapsing &c v.; aoristic † ; progressive.
Adv. in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time;
in time.
Phr. labitur et labetur [Lat.] [Horace]; truditur dies die [Lat.] [Horace]; fugaces labuntur
anni [Lat.] [Horace]; tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace
from day to day [Macbeth].
110. [Long duration.] Diuturnity -- N. diuturnity † ; a long time, a length of time; an age,
a century, an eternity; slowness &c 275; perpetuity &c 112; blue moon, coon's age
[U.S.], dog's age.