machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.
blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation;
mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus [Lat.]; damage, loss &c
(deterioration) 659.
disadvantage, prejudice, drawback.
disaster, accident, casualty; mishap &c (misfortune) 735; bad job,
devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin &c
(destruction) 162; adversity &c 735.
mental suffering &c 828.
demon &c 980.
(Evil spirit) bane, &c 663 (cause of evil). badness, &c 649
(Production of Evil); painfulness, &c 830; evil doer, &c 913.
outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice,
spoliation &c 791; grievance, crying evil.
V. be in trouble &c (adversity) 735.
Adj. disastrous, bad &c 649; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.
Adv. amis [Fr.], wrong, ill, to one's cost
Phr. moving accidents by flood and field [Othello].
SECTION II.
PROSPECTIVE VOLITION