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

on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat,
weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk
and water; colorless &c 429.
Phr. non sum qualis eram [Lat.].
3. POWER IN OPERATION
161. Production -- N. {ant.
162,, 158} production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture;
building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster † ; organization; nisus
formativus [Lat.]; putting together &c v.; establishment; workmanship, performance;
achievement &c (completion) 729.
flowering, fructification; inflorescence.
bringing forth &c v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement,
accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture † ; gestation &c (maturation)
673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy [Phil.]; fertilization,
gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis † ,
procreation, progeneration † , propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen &c 357.
spontaneous generation; archegenesis † , archebiosis † ; biogenesis, abiogenesis † ,
digenesis † , dysmerogenesis † , eumerogenesis † , heterogenesis † , oogenesis, merogenesis † ,
metogenesis † , monogenesis † , parthenogenesis, homogenesis † , xenogenesis1 † ; authorship,
publication; works, opus, oeuvre.
biogeny † , dissogeny † , xenogeny † ; tocogony † , vacuolization.
edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.
V. produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive,
manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together,
set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish &c
(complete) 729.
flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean † , yean † , farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear,
lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher
into the world.
make productive &c 168; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate;
procreate, progenerate † , propagate; engender; bring into being, call into being, bring into
existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up.
induce, superinduce; suscitate † ; cause &c 153; acquire &c 775.
Adj. produced, producing &c v.; productive of; prolific &c 168; creative; formative,
genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way,
teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous † .
digenetic † , heterogenetic † , oogenetic, xenogenetic † ; ectogenous † , gamic † ,
haematobious † , sporogenous [Biol.], sporophorous [Biol.].
architectonic.
Phr. ex nihilo nihil [Lat.]; fiat lux [Lat.]; materiam superabat opus [Lat.] [Ovid]; nemo
dat quod non habet [Lat.].
162. [Nonproduction.] Destruction -- N. {ant.