instrumentality

Roget category 631

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#631. Instrumentality

noun

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.

verb

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

adjective

instrumental — useful etc. 644 — ministerial, subservient, mediatorial^† — intermediate, intervening — conducive.

adverb

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.

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