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Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.
During Roget's lifetime, the work had twenty-eight printings. After his death, it was revised and expanded by his son, John Lewis Roget (1828–1908), and later by John's son, the engineer Samuel Romilly Roget (1875–1953). [5] [13] Roget's private library was put up for auction in 1870 at Sotheby's and its catalogue has been analyzed. [14]
Some of Aristotle's Categories are included in Roget's first class "abstract relations"… I submit the folowing sources: Jamshydf 07:33, 17 August 2008 (UTC) SOURCE: Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases, New edition prepared by Susan M Lloyd, Longman, 1985 Preface to the 1982 edition, page vii:
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
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Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) was a British physician and lexicographer known for his thesaurus. Look up Roget in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Roget may also refer to:
Roger's Profanisaurus is a humorous book (and for a short period commencing 2011; mobile app), published in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing which is written in the style of a lexicon of profane words and expressions.