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

Adv. moderately &c adj.; gingerly; piano; under easy sail, at half speed; within bounds,
within compass; in reason.
Phr. est modue in rebus † ; pour oil on troubled waters.
4. INDIRECT POWER
175. Influence -- N. influence; importance &c 642; weight, pressure, preponderance,
prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy † ; ascendency † ; dominance, reign;
control, domination, pull [Slang]; authority &c 737; capability &c (power) 157; effect &c
154; interest.
synergy (cooperation) 709.
footing; purchase &c (support) 215; play, leverage, vantage ground.
tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices.
V. have influence &c n.; be influential &c adj.; carry weight, weigh, tell; have a hold
upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, take hold; strike root
in.
run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over weigh; override,
over-bear; gain head; rage; be rife &c adj.; spread like wildfire; have the upper
hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play.
be recognized, be listened to; make one's voice heard, gain a hearing; play a part, play
a leading part, play a leading part in; take the lead, pull the strings; turn the scale, throw
one's weight into the scale; set the fashion, lead the dance.
Adj. influential, effective; important &c 642; weighty; prevailing &c v.; prevalent, rife,
rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical † .
Adv. with telling effect.
Phr. tel maure tel valet [Fr.].
175a. Absence of Influence -- N. impotence &c 158; powerlessness; inertness &c 172;
irrelevancy &c 10.
V. have no influence &c 175.
Adj. uninfluential † , ineffective; inconsequential, nugatory; unconducing, unconducive,
unconducting to † ; powerless &c 158; irrelevant &c 10.
176. Tendency -- N. tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone,
bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus [Lat.],
nisus [Lat.]; liability &c 177; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy † , idiosyncrasy; cast,
vein, grain; humor, mood; drift &c (direction) 278; conduciveness, conducement † ;
applicability &c (utility) 644; subservience &c (instrumentality) 631.
V. tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry,
redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote &c (aid) 707.
Adj. tending &c v.; conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable &c
177; subservient &c (instrumental) 631; useful &c 644; subsidiary &c (helping) 707.
Adv. for, whither.
177. Liability -- N. liability, liableness † ; possibility, contingency; susceptivity † ,
susceptibility, exposure.