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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section IV. Moral Affections |
| 5. Institutions |
| 964. [Absence or Violation of Law.] Illegality. |
| NOUN: | LAWLESSNESS; illicitness; breach -, violation- of law; disobedience [See Disobedience]; unconformity [See Unconformity]; arbitrariness &c. adj.; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, tyranny, outlawry. mob -, lynch -, club -, Lydford -, martial -, drumhead- law; coup d’état [F.]; le droit du plus fort [F.]; argumentum baculinum [L.]. ILLEGALITY, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister. trover and conversion; smuggling, bootlegging [slang, U. S.], illicit distilling [See Drunkenness]; poaching; simony. |
| VERB: | VIOLATE THE LAW, offend against the law, set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; make the law a dead letter, take the law into one’s own hands. smuggle, run, poach, bootleg [slang, U. S.]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | ILLEGAL; prohibited [See Prohibition]; not allowed, unlawful, illegitimate, illicit, contraband, actionable. unchartered, unconstitutional; unwarranted, unwarrantable, unauthorized; informal, unofficial, injudicial [rare], extra-judicial. LAWLESS, arbitrary, despotic, despotical; summary, irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable. null and void; a dead letter. |
| ADVERB: | ILLEGALLY &c. adj.; with a high hand, in violation of law. |
| QUOTATION: | Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great Tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dares not check thee!—Macbeth |
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