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Roget’s Thesaurus
of
English words and phrases classified and arranged so as to facilitate theexpression of ideas and assist in literary composition
by Peter Mark Roget
An electronic thesaurus derived from the version of Roget's Thesaurus publishedin 1911.
MICRA, Inc. makes no representation that the original 1911 printed work onwhich this is based is now in the public domain in any particular country. However, MICRA, Inc. makes no proprietary claims regarding this electronicversion of the 1911 thesaurus. If the 1911 work is currently public domain,this electronic version can also be treated as public domain.
Note that this version of Thesaurus-1911 has been supplemented with over 1,000words not present in the original 1911 edition, but many modern words are stillmissing. About 1500 verbs (out of 6500) which can be found in an 80,000-wordspell-checker are absent from this work. The deficiency of nouns is probablymuch worse, especially on technical topics. Of 40,000 unique words contained inthe original text, 12,000 are not recognized by a spell-checker. Most of theseare foreign words (primarily Latin), and many are obsolete. In this version,these words are marked as such by comments in square brackets. Although thisversion has been proof-read, there are doubtless numerous residualtranscription errors, some of which may be obvious even without reference tothe original text. We will be grateful if any of these are brought to ourattention; the corrections will appear in subsequent versions.
The original arrangement has also been modified slightly in several places, inparticular by splitting one entry into two. A version of the 1911 thesauruswhich is almost identical to the original (only a small number of additions tothe original work) has also been prepared by MICRA, Inc., and also carries norestrictions from MICRA. Copies of that version or this one may be purchasedfor $40.00 from MICRA, Inc., or from the Austin Code Works, Austin Texas.
Occasional references to numbers starting with "@" are the embryonic beginningsof a reorganized version, mentioned below. A few comments are also includedwithin curly brackets {}.
The following additional differences will be noted between this version and theoriginal edition of the printed 1911 thesaurus:
(1) the space-saving abbreviations in the original, using hyphens to representcommon words, prefixes or suffixes, have been expanded into the full words orphrases.
(2) the side-by-side format for words and their opposites has been abandoned.Words are listed in order of their entry number.
(3) each main entry (1035 entries) has a pound sign "#" in front of the numberto facilitate computerized search.
(4) Greek words and phrases are transliterated and included between brackets inthe format <gr/greek word/gr>.
(5) where italics occurred in the original, italics are used in the MicrosoftWord format file. In the plain ASCII file, this formatting is lost.
(6) in the original book, words which were obsolete (in 1911) were marked witha dagger. In this version, those words are marked with a vertical bar ("|").
Some of the words which were still current in 1911, but are no longer found ina current college-size dictionary (presently obsolete words), or which are nolonger used in the specific indicated sense, have been marked with a barfollowed by an exclamation point "|!". However, this marking process has justcommenced, and only a small portion of the words which are now obsolete h