Roget's Thesaurus

#600. Will

Nouns

will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum arbitrium [Lat.]; will and pleasure, free will; freedom etc. 748; discretion; option etc. (choice) 609; voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality. pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind etc. (inclination) 602; intention etc. 620; predetermination etc. 611; selfcontrol etc.; determination etc. (resolution) 604; force of will.

Verbs

will, list; see fit, think fit; determine etc. (resolve) 604; enjoin; settle etc. (choose) 609; volunteer. have a will of one's own; do what one chooses etc. (freedom) 748; have it all.one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way. use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate etc. (cause) 153.

Adjectives

voluntary, volitional, willful; free etc. 748; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive. minded etc. (willing) 602; prepense etc. (predetermined) 611; intended etc. 620; autocratic; unbidden etc. (bid) etc. 741; spontaneous; original etc. (casual) 153; unconstrained.

Adverbs

voluntarily etc. adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte [Fr.], a discretion; al piacere [It.]; ad libitum, ad arbitrium [Lat.]; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito [It.]. of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu [Lat.], suo motu [Lat.], ex meromotu [Lat.]; out of one's won head; by choice etc. 609; purposely etc. (intentionally) 620; deliberately etc. 611.

Phrases

stet pro ratione voluntas [Lat.]; sic volo sic jubeo [Lat.]; a vostro beneplacito [It.]; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere [Lat.]; Deus vult [Lat.]; was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden [G.].