#175. Influence.窶年. influence; importance &c. 642; weight, pressure,
preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy[obs3];
ascendency[obs3]; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull*;
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; over-ride, 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[obs3]. Adv. with telling effect. Phr. tel maure tel
valet[Fr].
#175a. Absence of Influence.窶年. impotence &c. 158; powerlessness;
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inertness &c. 172; irrelevancy &c. 10.
V. have no -influence &c. 175.
Adj. uninfluential[obs3], ineffective; inconsequential, nugatory;
unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to[obs3]; powerless &c. 158;
irrelevant &c. 10.
#176. Tendency.窶年. 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[obs3],
idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift &c. (direction)
278; conduciveness, conducement[obs3]; 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.窶年. liability, liableness[obs3]; possibility,
contingency; susceptivity[obs3], susceptibility, exposure. V. be
-liable &c. adj.; incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance, stand a
chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to. Adj. liable,
subject; in danger &c. 665; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to;
answerable; unexempt from[obs3]; apt to; dependent on; incident to.
contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the
mercy of.