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

V. chance, hap, turn up; fall to one's lot; be one's fate &c 601; stumble on light upon; take
one's chance &c 621.
Adj. casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent,
uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible &c 470;
unintentional &c 621.
Adv. by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance &c (possibly) 470; for
aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as
ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may
turn up, as it may happen; as the case may be.
Phr. grasps the skirts of happy chance [Tennyson]; the accident of an accident [Lord
Thurlow].
There but for the grace of God go I
2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT
157. Power -- N. power; potency, potentiality; jiva † ; puissance, might, force, energy &c
171; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency † , sway, control; prepotency, prepollence † ;
almightiness, omnipotence; authority &c 737; strength &c 159.
ability; ableness &c adj. † ; competency; efficacy; efficiency, productivity, expertise
(skill) 698; validity, cogency; enablement † ; vantage ground; influence &c 175.
pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic
electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear
power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power; solar power, solar
energy, solar panels; tidal power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae [Lat.], vis mortua
[Lat.], vis viva [Lat.]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic
suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire.
capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [Lat.]; faculty, quality,
attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.
V. be powerful &c adj.; gain power &c n.. belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in
one's power; can, be able.
give power, confer power, exercise power &c n.; empower, enable, invest; indue † ,
endue; endow, arm; strengthen &c 159; compel &c 744.
Adj. powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient,
productive; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent † ,
plenipotent † , omnipotent; almighty.
forcible &c adj.. (energetic) 171; influential &c 175; productive &c 168.
Adv. powerfully &c adj.; by virtue of, by dint of.
Phr. a toute force [Fr.]; dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen [Gr.]; eripuit coelo fulmen
sceptrumque tyrannis [Lat.]; fortis cadere cedere non potest [Lat.].
158. Impotence -- N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance,
imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity † ;
indocility † ; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.
telum imbelle [Lat.], brutum fulmen [Lat.], blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan,
vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.], dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker
gun.