• business actions

Mental or Verbal.

• DESIGNING, allot, appoint, plot, preordein, project.
• UNDERTAKING, enterprize, take in hand set upon, task.

Real; either more general or more special, with respect to the providing of requi∣site materials.

• PREPARING, Parade, previous, ready, make way, fitting, Tuning, Harbinger.
• FURNISHING, Aequipage, fitting, ready.

First entrance upon a business; either Real or Seeming.

• BEGIINNING, Inchoate, initiate, commence, Inceptor, Spring, Rise, Origi∣nal, first, set about, set forth, set a foot, go in hand with, enter upon.
• OFFERING, Propose profer, tender, bid, propound, overture.

Application of the labor, either to the doing of any thing, or to know whether it can be done.

• ENDEAVOURING, Devoir, bestir, adoo, coyl, stickle, strein, strive, struggle, effort, make a stir, do ones best, reach after, lay out for.
• ESSAYING, Trying, say, attempt, prove, tempt-ation, Test, Experience, enter∣prize, venture, sound, tast, touch, run the risk or adventure.

Medial; with respect to the time bestow'd in the doing of it, whether shorter or longer time.

• DISPATCHING, Hasten, quick, high, forward, hurry, precipitate, speed, C•le∣rity, Expedition, sodain, apace, out of hand, cut short.
• PROTRACTING, Delay, desert, retard, slacken, respite, tarry, foreslow, linger, prolong, lengthen, prorogue, procrastinate, dally, lagg, stand about, whiling about▪ shift off, put off▪ post off, spin out time.

• End of the Action; either the effecting of what we undertake and profess, or our failing in it.
  • PERFORMING, Accomplishing, Atchieve, fu•fil, verifie, discharge, execute, keep, observe, exploit, make good bring to pass.
  • VIOLATING, infringe, break, trespass, transgress.

• Action it self; whether Perfect or Imperfect.
  • FINISHING, Concluding, ending, accomplishing, fulfil, performing, cease, give over, Period, Term, ultimate, last, consummate, determine, dispatched, done, Catastrophe, clap up, shut up, wind up, close up, draw to an issue, go through with, run his course.
  • MISCARRYING, Failing.

Hinderances of it; either not rightly using the means, or not using some of them.

• ERRING, Swerve, slip, stray, astray, mistake, oversight, deviate, falter, fallible. heterodox, Fallacy, wrong, amiss, awry, being out, beside the mark.
• OMITTING, Pretermit, Wave, decline, default, escape, lapse, leave, miss, forbear, balk, supersede, overlook, overpass, preterition, overslip, overskip, let pass, pass by or over, lay aside, hold ones hand.

Helps of it; denoting either avoiding mistakes at the beginning, or rectifying mi∣stakes afterwards.

• PREVENTING, Anticipate, Previous, aforehand, forestal, Foregame.
• REMEDYING, Redress, Shift, Aftergame, Help.