The new american Roget's College Thesaurus in dictionary form [antikvár]

HOW TO USE THIS THESAURUSPETER MARK ROGET was an English Physician who was born in 1779 and died in 1869. As a hobby he liked to make lists of words and group them together when they were related to one another. Some were related because they were synonyms, such as illegal and unlawful, some because they were antonyms, such as peaceful and warlike; some because they were reminders of one another, such as father and mother. Altogether Mr. Roget made a thousand different groups, or categories, of related words. Every word he knew or could find in the dictionaries that he had was classified in one or more of these categories.In 1852 Mr. Roget's list of words was published. He called the book a thesaurus, or treasury, of words. There were not many words in the first roget's thesaurus, compared to the number in a volume like this, but his book was the first collection of synonyms, antonyms, and other related words. Not only writers, but many others found it invaluable. Dozens of editors, beginning with Mr. Roget's son, have revised the original Thesaurus, added to it, and brought it up to date (for many of the words in the original Roget list are now obsolete and many common words of today were unknown in his time); but virtually every edition is still called roget's thesaurus in honor of the man who first had the idea.This edition of roget's thesaurus is both a dictionary of synonyms and a thesaurus or "treasury" of related words. It combines, in one easy-to-use alphabetical list, categories (very much like those in Roget's original thesaurus) and a list of words with their close synonyms. For clarity, each category is printed the full width of the page and set off in a box, while the synonym listings are printed half-page width.To find synonyms for a word, first look up the word in the alphabetical list. In most cases, you will find what you are looking for immediately under that word. Reference to more synonyms is indicated by words printed in small capitals. If you look up the word or words referred to, you will find additional synonyms and other words related to the word you were looking up. Most references are toiii