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Roget's Thesaurus

by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869)

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  • 40 chapters
  • Reading level: 10th to 12th grade

"Roget's Thesaurus" by Peter Mark Roget is a reference work first published in 1852. Roget, a British physician and lexicographer, created this revolutionary system of verbal classification to help writers struggling with composition. Rather than arranging words alphabetically, his thesaurus organizes them into six primary classes with over a thousand meaning clusters, grouping words by semantic relationships and conceptual connections. Originally containing 15,000 words, the work has expanded through successive editions while maintaining Roget's foundational organizational system, becoming one of the most widely used English-language reference tools.

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Section I: Existence: 1. Being, in the Abstract

#1. Existence.—N. existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence. reality, actuality; positiveness &c. adj.; fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth &c. 494; actual existence. presence &c. (existence in space) 186; coexistence &c. 120. stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream &c. 515; no joke. center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle. [Science of existence], ontology. V. exist, be; have being &c. n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur &c. (event) 151; have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate. consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by. come into existence &c. n.; arise &c. (begin) 66; come forth &c. (appear) 446. become &c. (be converted) 144; bring into existence &c. 161. abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay. Adj. existing &c. v.; existent, under the sun; in existence &c. n.; extant; afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed. real, actual, positive, absolute; true &c. 494; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential. well-founded, well-grounded; unideal[obs3], unimagined; not potential &c. 2; authentic. Adv. actually &c. adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed; de facto, ipso facto. Phr. ens rationis; ergo sum cogito; "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?" [Byron].

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Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. Section I: Existence: 1. Being, in the Abstract
  3. Section II: Relation: 1. Absolute Relation
  4. Section III: Quantity: 1. Simple Quantity
  5. Section IV: Order: 1. Order in General
  6. Section V: Number: 1. Number, in the Abstract
  7. Section VI: Time: 1. Absolute Time
  8. Section VII: Change: 1. Simple Change
  9. Section VIII: Causation: 1. Constancy of Sequence in Events
  10. Section I: Space in General: 1. Abstract Space
  11. Section II: Dimensions: 1. General Dimensions
  12. Section III: Form
  13. Section IV: Motion
  14. Section I: Matter in General
  15. Section II: Inorganic Matter
  16. Section III: Organic Matter: 1. Vitality
  17. Section I: Operations of Intellect in General
  18. Section II: Precursory Conditions and Operations
  19. Section III: Materials for Reasoning
  20. Section IV: Reasoning Processes
  21. Section V: Results of Reasoning
  22. Section VI: Extension of Thought: 1. To the Past
  23. Section VII: Creative Thought
  24. Section I: Nature of Ideas Communicated
  25. Section II: Modes of Communication
  26. Section III: Means of Communicating Ideas
  27. Section I: Volition in General
  28. Section II: Prospective Volition[1]
  29. Section III: Voluntary Action
  30. Section IV: Antagonism
  31. Section V: Results of Voluntary Action
  32. Section I: General Intersocial Volition
  33. Section II: Special Intersocial Volition
  34. Section III: Conditional Intersocial Volition
  35. Section IV: Possessive Relations
  36. Section I: Affections in General
  37. Section II: Personal Affections[1]
  38. Section III: Sympathetic Affections: 1. Social Affections
  39. Section IV: Moral Affections: 1. Moral Obligations
  40. Section V: Religious Affections: 1. Superhuman Beings and Regions

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This free edition of Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #22, released 1991-12-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference.

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