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Roget's Thesaurus
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Roget's Thesaurus is a reference work grouping English words by meaning, allowing users to find synonyms, antonyms, and related terms organized by conceptual category rather than alphabetically. It suits writers, students, editors, and anyone seeking precise vocabulary.
(Note: the 1991 date reflects a particular edition; the work was first published in 1852.)
Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus). In 1824, he read a paper to the Royal Society about a peculiar optical illusion which is often (falsely) regarded as the origin of the ancient persistence of vision theory that was later commonly, yet incorrectly, used to explain apparent motion in film and animation.
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