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

Adj. changed &c v.; newfangled; changeable &c 149; transitional; modifiable; alterative.
Adv. mutatis mutandis [Lat.].
Int. quantum mutatus! [Lat.],
Phr. a change came o'er the spirit of my dream [Byron]; nous avons change tout cela
[Moliere]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis [Lat.]; non sum qualis eram [Lat.]
[Horace]; casaque tourner [Fr.]; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus]; in
statu quo ante bellum [Lat.]; still ending and beginning still [Cowper]; vox audita perit
littera scripta manet [Lat.].
141. [Absence of change.] Permanence -- N. stability &c 150; quiescence &c 265;
obstinacy &c 606.
permanence, persistence, endurance; durability; standing, status quo; maintenance,
preservation, conservation; conservation; law of the Medes and Persians; standing dish.
V. let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet (copy editing) hold, hold
on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby † , dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast;
subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing,
keep one's footing; hold good.
Adj. stable &c 150; persisting &c v.; permanent; established; unchanged &c (change) &c
140; renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent; monotonous, uncheckered † ; unfailing.
undestroyed, unrepealed, unsuppressed † ; conservative, qualis ab incepto [Lat.];
prescriptive &c (old) 124; stationary &c 265.
Adv. in statu quo [Lat.]; for good, finally; at a stand, at a standstill; uti possidetis [Lat.];
without a shadow of turning.
Phr. esto perpetua [Lat.]; nolumus leges Angliae mutari [Lat.]; j'y suis et j'y ereste [Fr.].
142. [Change from action to rest.] Cessation -- N. cessation, discontinuance, desistance,
desinence † .
intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping &c v.;
closure, stoppage, halt; arrival &c 292.
pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture [U.S.].
dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado [Sp.]; blowout, burnout, meltdown,
disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end &c 67; death &c 360.
V. cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop
short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.
have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up &c (relinquish) 624.
hold one's hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels.
come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive
&c 292; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away &c (be past) 122; be at an
end; disintegrate, self-destruct.
intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel † ; intermit, remit; put an end to, put a stop to, put a
period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a
stand, bring to a standstill; stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the
check-string, pull the plug on.
Int. hold!, stop!, enough!, avast!, have done!, a truce to!, soft!, leave off!, tenez! [Fr.],
Phr. I pause for a reply [Julius Caesar].