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

143. Continuance in action -- N. continuance, continuation; run; perpetuation,
prolongation; persistence &c (perseverance) 604.1; repetition &c 104.
V. continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to
its course, take its course, maintain its course; carry on, keep up.
sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot; follow up, perpetuate; maintain; preserve &c
604.1; harp upon &c (repeat) 104.
keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep up the good work;
die in harness, die with one's boots on; hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the
even tenor of one's way.
let be; stare super antiquas vias [Lat.]; quieta non movere [Lat.]; let things take their
course; stare decisis (Jurisprudence).
Adj. continuing &c v.; uninterrupted, unintermitting † , unvarying, unshifting † ;
unreversed † , unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried; sustained; undying &c (perpetual) 112;
inconvertible.
Int. keep it up!, go to it!, right away!, right on!, attaboy!,
Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari [Lat.]; vestigia nulla retrorsum [Lat.] [Horace];
labitur et albetur [Horace].
144. [Gradual change to something different.] Conversion -- N. conversion, reduction,
transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution, sea change; change of state;
assumption; naturalization; transportation; development [Biol.], developing.
[photography] [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of
currency; exchange rate; bureau de change.
chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux.
passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting &c v.; phase; conjugation;
convertibility.
crucible, alembic, caldron, retort.
convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.
V. be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop
into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into,
ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow,
come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the
state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse † ; begin a new phase,
assume a new phase, undergo a change.
convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form &c 240; remodel, new model,
refound † , reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.
Adj. converted into &c v.; convertible, resolvable into; transitional; naturalized.
Adv. gradually, &c (slowly) 275 in transitu &c (transference) 270 [Lat.].
145. Reversion -- N. reversion, return; revulsion.
turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm.
alternation &c (periodicity) 138; inversion &c 219; recoil &c 277; retreat, regression,
retrogression &c 283; restoration &c 660; relapse, recidivism &c 661; atavism; vicinism † ;
V. revert, turn back, regress; relapse &c 661; recoil &c 277; retreat &c 283; restore &c
660; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale.
Adj. reverting &c v.; regressive, revulsive, reactionary; retrorse † .