Notes on the automatically-generated Index to Roget’s Thesaurus, 1911 edition.
Introduction A true Roget’s Thesaurus (as opposed to an
alphabetically-listed synonym dictionary) is composed of three parts:
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a hierarchical
classification structure (hierarchy or
“Synopsis of Categories”);
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a body, which
lists the Categories (whose titles are
sometimes referred to as “head words” or “headings”), under which are found the
groups of semantically- or conceptually-related words and phrases (also called
synonyms or entries);
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and an Index that lists the entries alphabetically (along with
the Category titles and numbers under which the entry may be found in the
body).
This document contains the complete Index to the 1911 (American)
edition. It was generated from the entries (synonyms, phrases and word lists)
contained in the Gutenburg/MICRA free E-text thesaurus 14a (plain text
version). It is larger than the original 1911 Roget’s Thesaurus Index,
containing all text entries (i.e. excluding numbers, special characters and
parenthetical information) up to 25 characters long (91,000+ entries).
Index Entries This Index lacks the intelligence found in the
original hand-edited Index, where common-sense aggregations occur. For example
A B C and A.B.C. are found under a single Index entry in the original Index.
Also, phrases are here listed alphabetically rather than “semantically.” For
example, in the original Index under the Index entry home there are phrases such as be at -, at - with,
bring – to (“be at home,” “at home with,”
” bring home to”). In this
automatically-generated Index be at home is instead listed after the entry be at cross purposes with and before the entries be at home in, and be at home
with; while bring home to is listed after bring i.e. none are listed under home.
This Index includes archaic
and obsolete words; foreign terms; Latin quotations; and many other such
entries that the average thesaurus-user would never need, and were not included
in the original Index.
Foreign characters such as
umlaut, circumflex, grave or acute may be found to encoded using ASCII
characters e.g. flamb_ee, b=ete noire. A look-up for these codes is not
provided.
Pages There are 565 pages in this document (including this page) in four-column format. The 1911 Roget’s Thesaurus (large print edition) begins at page 351 and ends at page 653 (302 pages) in four-column format.
Header Page I have included the original Roget’s header page to
the Index (with its explanatory note) for completeness. However the information
it gives is not accurate for this automatically-generated Index i.e., for words
or phrases that are both an Index entry and
one of the Category names (“headings”) listed beneath it, the reference
number is not printed in bold-face type.
L John Old
Napier University
Edinburgh
March 2003
INDEX
N.B. The numbers refer to the headings under which the words or phrases occur. When the same word or phrase may be used in various senses, several headings under which it, or its synonyms, will be found, according to those meanings, are indicated by the words printed in Italics. These words in Italics are not intended to explain the meaning of the word or phrase to which they are annexed, but only to assist in the required reference.
When a number or word of reference is
placed within parentheses, the actual word or phrase will not be found under
the heading referred to, although it may sometimes be useful to consult the
category thus indicated.
When the word given in the Index is itself
the title or heading of the category, the number of reference is printed in
bold-face type, thus: abode 186.
A
A
1
goodness 648
a being
substantiality
3
a blue moon
neverness 107
a bright thought
intelligence,
wisdom 498
a can of worms
convolution
248
a catalectin
poetry 597
a century
diuturnity 110
a certain number
plurality 100
a chip off the old block
similarity 17
a coup sur
certainty 474
a crowd is not company
sociality 892
a cup too low
dejection 837
a dagger of the mind
fear 860
a Daniel come to judgment
judge 967
judgment 480
a day after the fair
untimeliness
135
a dead letter
illegality 964
a deal
greatness 31
a discretion
will 600
a dog's obeyed in office
government
737.a
a face untaught to feign
probity 939
a fair field and no
favor
probity 939
a far cry to
distance 196
a few
plurality 100
quantity 25
a fig for
contempt 930
a fine frenzy
imagination
515
a fond
completeness
52
a fortiori
superiority 33
reasoning 476
evidence 467
a full
quantity 25
a gauche
sinistrality
239
a gentleman and a
scholar
good man 948
a good hand at
skill 698
a good turn
benevolence
906
a good way off
distance 196
a great way off
distance 196
a hundred
multitude 102
a la francaise
fashion 852
a la mode
fashion 852
a la parisienne
fashion 852
a la sourdine
concealment
528
a la tartufe
falsehood 544
a length of time
diuturnity 110
a little at a time
degree 26
a little bird told me
information
527
a little bit
smallness 32
a long time
diuturnity 110
a long time ago
the past 122
a long way off
distance 196
a long while
the past 122
a man among men
good man 948
a million
multitude 102
a myriad
multitude 102
a nonillion
multitude 102
a number
plurality 100
a number of times
repetition 104
a outrance
completeness
52
greatness 31
violence 173
a plague upon!
malediction
908
a post master
authority 737
a prey to
pain 828
a prey to grief
pain 828
a prey to melancholy
dejection 837
a priori fact
maxim 496
a priori reasoning
reasoning 476
a quadrillion
multitude 102
a quantity
multitude 102
a quicksand of deceit
deception 545
a Roland for an Oliver
retaliation
718
barter 794
a sadder and a wiser man
penitence 950
a schoolboy's tale
transientness
111
a se
irrelation 10
a short time ago
newness 123
a shot in the locker
means 632
a show of
similarity 17
a slave to
subjection 749
a soul as white as
heaven
purity 960
a span
shortness 201
a stitch in time
earliness 132
a stranger to
ignorance 491
a thousand
multitude 102
a thousand and one
multitude 102
a thousand times no
negation 536
a tort et a travers
disagreement
24
resolution 604
a truce to!
cessation 142
a wash
equality 27
a wee bit
smallness 32
a wilderness of sweets
pleasure 827
a word and a blow
contention 720
haste 684
irascibility
901
a word to the wise
intelligibility
518
information
527
a world of
multitude 102
A$
money 800
A,B,C,D,E,F
teaching 537
A. B.
mariner 269
A.B.C.
teaching 537
A.C.
time 106
A.D.
time 106
a.m.
morning 125
A.R.
time 106
A.U.C.
time 106
ab extra
exteriority
220
ab intra
interiority
221
abacist
numeration 85
aback
rear 235
abacus
numeration 85
Abaddon
satan 978