degree (n.)
- baccalaureate
- bachelor
- bar
- barometer
- brace
- canon
- caste
- check
- class
- condition
- continuity
- criterion
- diapason
- dimension
- doctor
- doctorate
- east
- eastward
- estate
- extent
- fifth
- fourth
- gauge
- gradation
- grade
- halftone
- hierarchy
- interval
- level
- limit
- line
- magnitude
- master
- measure
- model
- norm
- north
- northeast
- northward
- northwest
- notch
- note
- occident
- octave
- order
- orient
- parameter
- pattern
- place
- point
- position
- proportion
- quantity
- quite
- rank
- rate
- ratio
- reading
- readout
- rhumb
- rule
- rung
- scale
- second
- semitone
- sequence
- seventh
- situation
- sixth
- size
- south
- southeast
- southward
- southwest
- space
- staff
- stage
- standard
- standing
- station
- status
- stave
- step
- subordination
- sunrise
- sunset
- test
- third
- tone
- touchstone
- type
- value
- west
- westward
- yardstick
degree (adv.)
- class
- considerably
- decidedly
- degrees
- east
- eastward
- exceedingly
- extent
- fourth
- gradually
- highly
- limit
- line
- measure
- north
- northeast
- northward
- northwest
- order
- place
- position
- quite
- rate
- rather
- second
- slowly
- somewhat
- south
- southeast
- southward
- southwest
- stage
- standing
- step
- substantially
- test
- third
- west
- westward
Virtuous and vicious every man must be,—
Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,
And curs of low degree.
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.
King Stephen was a worthy peere,
His breeches cost him but a croune;
He held them sixpence all too deere,
Therefore he call'd the taylor loune.
He was a wight of high renowne,
And those but of a low degree;
Itt's pride that putts the countrye doune,
Then take thine old cloake about thee.
