Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section III. Materials for Reasoning

470. Possibility.

   NOUN:POSSIBILITY, potentiality, potency; what may be, what is possible &c. adj.; compatibility (agreement) [See Agreement].
  PRACTICABILITY, feasibility, workability, workableness; practicableness &c. adj.
  CONTINGENCY, chance [See Chance].
   VERB:BE POSSIBLE &c. adj.; stand a chance; have a leg to stand on; admit of, bear.
  RENDER POSSIBLE &c. adj.; put in the way of, bring to bear, bring together.
   ADJECTIVE:POSSIBLE; on the -cards, -dice; in posse [L.], within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, imaginable, credible; compatible [See Agreement]; likely.
  PRACTICABLE, feasible, workable, performable, achievable; within -reach, – measurable distance; accessible, superable, surmountable; attainable, obtainable; contingent (doubtful) [See Uncertainty].
   ADVERB:POSSIBLY, by any possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; may be, it may be, haply, mayhap.
  IF POSSIBLE, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente [L.], D. V.; as luck may have it.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontem.
2. The glories of the Possible are ours.—B. Taylor