Roget’s Thesaurus

About this eBook

Author

Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869

Title

Roget's Thesaurus

Credits

MICRA, Inc.

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Synonyms and antonyms

Category

Text

eBook-No.

22

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22

Release Date

December 1, 1991

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Roget’s Thesaurus — of — English words and phrases classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition — by Peter Mark Roget — Tabular Synopsis of Categories — ROGET’S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES
2. 2.CLASS I WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS — S ECTION I. EXISTENCE — 1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT — 2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE — 3. FORMAL EXISTENCE — 4. MODAL EXISTENCE — S ECTION II. RELATION — 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION — 2. CONTINUOUS RELATION — 3. PARTIAL RELATION — 4. GENERAL RELATION — S ECTION III. QUANTITY — 1. SIMPLE QUANTITY — 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY — QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A STANDARD — QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT — CHANGES IN QUANTITY — 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY — 4. CONCRETE QUANTITY — S ECTION IV. ORDER — 1. ORDER IN GENERAL — 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER — 3. COLLECTIVE ORDER — 4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER — 5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES — S ECTION V. NUMBER — 1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT — 2. DETERMINATE NUMBER — 3. INDETERMINATE NUMBER — S ECTION VI. TIME — 1. ABSOLUTE TIME — 2. RELATIVE TIME — 3. RECURRENT TIME — S ECTION VII. CHANGE — 1. SIMPLE CHANGE — 2. COMPLEX CHANGE — S ECTION VIII. CAUSATION — 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS — 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT — 3. POWER IN OPERATION — 4. INDIRECT POWER — 5. COMBINATIONS OF CAUSES
3. 3.CLASS II WORDS RELATING TO SPACE — S ECTION I. SPACE IN GENERAL — 1. ABSTRACT SPACE — 2. RELATIVE SPACE — 3. EXISTENCE IN SPACE — S ECTION II. DIMENSIONS — 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS — 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS — 3. CENTRICAL DIMENSIONS — S ECTION III. FORM — 1. General Form — 2. Special Form — 3. Superficial Form — S ECTION IV. MOTION — 1. Motion in General — 2. Degrees of Motion — 3. Motion conjoined with Force — 4. Motion with reference to Direction
4. 4.CLASS III WORDS RELATING TO MATTER — S ECTION I. MATTER IN GENERAL — S ECTION II. INORGANIC MATTER — 1. Solid Matter — 2. FLUID MATTER — 3. IMPERFECT FLUIDS — S ECTION III. ORGANIC MATTER — 1. VITALITY — 2. SENSATION
5. 5.CLASS IV WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES — D IVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS — S ECTION I. OPERATIONS OF INTELLECT IN GENERAL — S ECTION II. PRECURSORY CONDITIONS AND OPERATIONS — S ECTION III. MATERIALS FOR REASONING — Degrees of Evidence — S ECTION IV. REASONING PROCESSES — S ECTION V. RESULTS OF REASONING — Faculties — S ECTION VI. EXTENSION OF THOUGHT — 1. To the Past — 2. To the Future — S ECTION VII. CREATIVE THOUGHT — D IVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS — S ECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED — S ECTION II. MODES OF COMMUNICATION — S ECTION III. MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS — 1. Natural Means — 2. Conventional Means
6. 6.CLASS V WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS — D IVISION (I) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION — S ECTION I. VOLITION IN GENERAL — 1. Acts of Volition — 2. Causes of Volition — 3. Objects of Volition — S ECTION II. PROSPECTIVE VOLITION[1] — 1. Conceptional Volition — 2. Subservience to Ends — 3. Precursory Measures — S ECTION III. VOLUNTARY ACTION — 1. Simple voluntary Action — 2. Complex Voluntary Action — S ECTION IV. ANTAGONISM — 1. Conditional Antagonism — 2. Active Antagonism — S ECTION V. RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION — D IVISION (II) INTERSOCIAL VOLITION[1] — S ECTION I. GENERAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION — S ECTION II. SPECIAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION — S ECTION III. CONDITIONAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION — S ECTION IV. POSSESSIVE RELATIONS — 1. Property in general — 2. Transfer of Property — 3. Interchange of Property — 4. Monetary Relations
7. 7.CLASS VI WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS — S ECTION I. AFFECTIONS IN GENERAL — S ECTION II. PERSONAL AFFECTIONS[1] — 1. Passive Affections — 2. Discriminative Affections — 3. PROSPECTIVE AFFECTIONS — 4. CONTEMPLATIVE AFFECTIONS — 5. EXTRINSIC AFFECTIONS[1] — S ECTION III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS — 1. SOCIAL AFFECTIONS — 2. DIFFUSIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS — 3. SPECIAL SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS — 4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS — S ECTION IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS — 1. MORAL OBLIGATIONS — 2. MORAL SENTIMENTS — 3. MORAL CONDITIONS — 4. MORAL PRACTICE — 5. INSTITUTIONS — S ECTION V. RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS — 1. SUPERHUMAN BEINGS AND REGIONS — 2. RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES — 3. RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS — 4. ACTS OF RELIGION — 5. RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS

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