Roget's Thesaurus

#631. Instrumentality

Nouns

instrumentality; aid etc. 707; subservience, subserviency; mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand; agency etc. 170. minister, handmaid; midwife, accoucheur [Fr.], accoucheuse [Fr.], obstetrician; gobetween; cat's-paw; stepping-stone. opener etc. 260; key; master key, passkey, latchkey; open sesame; passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password. instrument etc. 633; expedient etc. (plan) 626; means etc. 632.

Verbs

subserve, minister, mediate, intervene; be instrumental etc. adj.; pander to; officiate; tend.

Adjectives

instrumental; useful etc. 644; ministerial, subservient, mediatorial; intermediate, intervening; conducive.

Adverbs

through, by, per; whereby, thereby, hereby; by the agency of etc. 170; by dint of; by virtue of, in virtue of; through the medium of etc. n.; along with; on the shoulders of; by means of etc. 632; by the aid of, with the aid of etc. (assistance) 707. per fas et nefas [Lat.], by fair means or foul; somehow, somehow or other; by hook or by crook.