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Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.
- E. M. Kirkpatrick, Betty Kirkpatrick
- 1852
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Though nearly everyone is familiar with the Roget’s Thesaurus, few people know anything about Peter Mark Roget, the eminent 19th century physician, physiology expert, mathematician, inventor, writer, editor and chess whiz—and what motivated him to write his immortal book.
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Mar 8, 2021 · Roget laboured for a dozen years on classifying more than 15,000 words. The result, published in 1852, was The Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition ―Phew.
Peter Mark Roget was an English physician and philologist remembered for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a comprehensive classification of synonyms or verbal equivalents that is still popular in modern editions. Roget studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and later.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Roget's Thesaurus is an outstanding work of English lexicography. When it appeared in 1852, it was the first of its kind.
Nov 27, 2003 · In 1852, Peter Mark Roget eclipsed a rich tradition of topically based dictionaries with the publication of his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas.
After Peter’s death in 1869, his son John Lewis Roget revised and expanded the thesaurus, with John’s own son Samuel Romilly Roget then taking the mantle of the lexicographical dynasty well into the mid-20 th Century, propelling Roget’s thesaurus to what it is today.
