Chapter Editorial Note of Prelims by Roget's Thesaurus

Editorial Note

In the revision of this book I have added most of the terms made necessary by modern science. I have added, too, many foreign phrases, and have tried to improve the Index in various ways. Where anything has become obsolete I have left it out, but I have done this very sparingly. Most of the errors I have corrected, but in such a work as this many must pass by unnoticed.

A. B.

August 1912.

Note to the 1925 Edition

In this new revision of Roget's Thesaurus an attempt has been made to incorporate the many and great changes that our vocabulary has undergone since the work was first published. All obsolete words (some amusing curiosities excepted) have been removed; spellings have been modernised, naturalised words deprived of the stigma of italics, and new words and new meanings of old ones added, to the number of several thousands. In accordance with the original plan, colloquialisms and slang expressions have been freely admitted. The index has been revised, corrected and greatly augmented. Roget's system of classification, though bearing in places the marks of its early nineteenth-century origin, is still sound and serviceable, and, except for a few minor alterations, has been left unchanged.

C. L.

Note to the 1930 Edition

In this edition a number of new words and phrases have been added, and the index has undergone a further revision.

C. L.

Bibliography of Works by Peter Mark Roget

Tentamen Physicum de Chemicæ Affinitatis Legibus, 1798; an introductory Lecture on Human and Comparative Physiology, 1826; wrote four treatises on Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism for the Library of Useful Knowledge, 1832; Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with reference to Natural Theology, 2 vols., for Bridgewater Treatises, 1834; re-issued, 1839; with additions and emendations, 1840, 1862; Physiology and Phrenology (reprinted from 7th edition Encyclop\ae\dia Britannica), 1838; The Economic Chess-board, 1846; Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, 1852; 2nd edition, enlarged, 1853; 3rd edition, enlarged and improved, 1855; 4th edition, enlarged and improved, 1856; 5th edition, enlarged, 1857; 6th, 1857; an edition enlarged by his son, John Lewis Roget, 1879; later editions, 1888, 1896, 1899, 1901, 1904.