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'''Roget's Thesaurus''' is an English thesaurus. First published in April 1852, it was written by [[Peter Mark Roget]] (after whom it is named).<ref>http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199254729.001.0001/acprof-9780199254729</ref> In his foreword to the original edition, he said concerning the thesaurus: <blockquote>It is now nearly fifty years since I first projected a system of verbal classification similar to that on which the present work is founded. Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published.<ref>Lloyd 1982, p.xix</ref>

'''''Roget's Thesaurus''''' is an English thesaurus. First published in April 1852, it was written by [[Peter Mark Roget]] (after whom it is named).<ref>http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199254729.001.0001/acprof-9780199254729</ref> In his foreword to the original edition, Roget said concerning the thesaurus: <blockquote>It is now nearly fifty years since I first projected a system of verbal classification similar to that on which the present work is founded. Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published.<ref>Lloyd 1982, p.xix</ref>

</blockquote> The original manuscript of the thesaurus can be found in the [[Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum]]. It began with 15,000 words and has been increasing since.<ref>http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/rogetdis.html</ref>

</blockquote> The original manuscript of the thesaurus can be found in the [[Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum]]. It began with 15,000 words and has been increasing since.<ref>http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/rogetdis.html</ref>