Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations Section III. Quantity 2. Comparative Quantity 29. Mean.
NOUN: MEAN, medium, intermedium [obsoles. ], average, balance, normal, rule, run; mediocrity, generality; golden mean &c. (mid-course ) [See Mid-course ]; middle [See Middle ]; compromise [See Compromise ]; middle course, middle state; neutrality. VERB: AVERAGE, split the difference; take the average &c. n.; reduce to a mean &c. n.; strike a balance, pair off. ADJECTIVE: MEAN, intermediate; medial, middle [See Middle ]; average, normal, standard; neutral.MEDIOCRE, middle-class, bourgeois [F. ], commonplace (unimportant ) [See Unimportance ]. ADVERB: ON-AN AVERAGE, in the long run; taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis [L. ], in round numbers.IN THE MIDDLE, in medias res [L. ], meden agan [Greek]. QUOTATIONS: Medium tenuere beati.
Keep the golden mean.—Publius Syrus
Est modus in rebus.—Horace
Give me neither poverty nor riches.—Bible
