Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section IV. Antagonism
1. Conditional Antagonism

705. Facility.

   NOUN:FACILITY, ease; easiness &c. adj.; capability; feasibility (practicability) [See Possibility]; flexibility, pliancy [See Softness]; smoothness [See Smoothness]; disencumbrance, disentanglement; deoppilation [obs.]; permission [See Permission].
  plain -, smooth -, straight- sailing; mere child’s play, holiday task; cinch, snap [both slang, U. S.].
  ALL CLEAR, smooth water, fair wind; smooth -, royal- road; clear -coast, – stage, – course; straight course; tabula rasa [L.]; full play (freedom) [See Freedom].
   VERB:BE EASY &c. adj.; go on -, run- smoothly; have full play &c. n.; go -, run- on all fours [colloq.]; hit on all -four, – six, – eight, – twelve (cylinders) [automobile cant]; obey the helm, work well, work smoothly, work like a machine.
  flow -, swim -, drift -, go- with the- -stream, – tide; see one’s way; have it all one’s own way, have the game in one’s own hands; walk over the course, win at a canter, win at a walk, win hands down [colloq.]; make little of, make light of, make nothing of; be at home in (skillful) [See Skill].
  RENDER EASY &c. adj.; facilitate, smooth, ease, popularize; lighten, – the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel, unknot, get the kinks out of; untie -, cut- the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate [obs.]; humor (aid) [See Aid]; lubricate [See Lubrication]; relieve [See Relief].
  leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open; give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the -door to, – way; prepare -, smooth -, clear- the -ground, – way, – path, – road; make all clear for, pave the way, bridge over; permit [See Permission].
   ADJECTIVE:EASY, facile; feasible (practicable) [See Possibility]; easily -managed, – accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to.
  MANAGEABLE, wieldy [rare], toward, towardly, tractable; submissive; yielding, ductile; suant or suent [local U. S. & prov. Eng.]; tractable (docile) [See Willingness], pliant (soft) [See Softness]; glib [obs.], slippery; smooth [See Smoothness]; on friction wheels, on velvet.
  UNBURDENED, disburdened, disencumbered, disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled; unrestrained (free) [See Freedom]; at ease, light.
  at home, quite at home; in one’s element, in smooth water.
   ADVERB:EASILY &c. adj.; readily, smoothly, swimmingly, with no effort, no easy terms, single-handed, with one hand tied behind one’s back.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Touch and go.
2. Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.—Hamlet