seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago
naming; nominating; designating; calling on; asking for; requesting
prime minister; premier; chancellor
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
elder; senior; senior monk; dean; presbyter
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
authority; power; influence
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
abasement; fall; forfeiture; sinking (in people's estimation)
decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing
change; alteration; modification
objection; dissent; protest
fatigue; weariness; exhaustion; tiredness
something worthy of comparison; something being compared
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
feigned; pretending (not to know)
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
ago; since; before; previous
from time immemorial; ancient; time-honoured; time-honored
golden rule (basic principle ensuring success in some activity)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
unfavourably; unfavorably; disparagingly; insultingly; ill
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart