Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget.

Peter Mark Roget

Date:: 1894

Credit: Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$tell its own tale, IV. (II.) T. *for itself, - volume.s; lie on the surface. ^ render -intelligible (fee. adj.; popula- rize, simplify, clear up; elucidate etc. (exjilain) 522. understand, comprehend ; take, - in : catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see -with half an eye, - daylight, - one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding. Adj. intelligible; clear, - as -day, - noonday ; lucid; per-, tran-spicuous; lu- minous, transparent. easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the mean- est capacity, popularized. plain, distinct, explicit; positive ; de- finite &c. {precise) 494. graphic; expressive «&c. {meaning) 516; illustrative »&c. (explanatory) 522. un-ambiguous, -equivocal, -mistakable &c. {mamfest) 525, -confused; legible, recognizable ; obvious &c. 525. Adv. in plain -terms, - words, - Eng- lish. Phr. he that runs may read &c. {ma- nifest) 525. cation &c. {concealment) 528; latency &c. 526; transcendentalism. paradox; riddle &c. {secret) 533; diy- nus vindice nodus; sealed book; stegan'o- graphy, freemasonry. pons asinorum, asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon »S:c. {un- meaning) 517. v. be -unintelligible &c. adj.; require -explanation &c. 522; have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension. render -unintelligible &c. adj.; conceal &c. 528; darken &c. 421; confuse &c. {derange) 61; perplex &c. (betvilder) 475. not -understand &c. 518; lose, - the clue ; miss ; not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to -account for, - make either head or tail of; be at sea itc. {uncefrtain) 475; wonder &c. 870; see through a glass darkly &c. {ignm-ance) 491. not understand one another; play at cross purposes &c. {misintej-pret) 523. Adj. un-intelligible, -accountable, -decipherable, -discoverable, -knowable, -fathomable; in-cognizable, -explicable, -scrutable; inap-, incom-prehensible; in- sol-vable, -uble; impenetrable. illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical; enigmatic, -al; puzzling, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebu- lous, shrouded in mystery; undiscernible &c. (invisible) 447; misty &c. (opaque) 426; hidden &c. 528; latent &c. 526. indefinite ifcc. (indistinct) 447; perplexed &c. (confused) 59; unde- termined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, -al; transcen- dental ; occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed. incon-ceivable, -ceptible ; searcbless ; above beyond past- com- prehension ; bej'ond one's depth ; uuconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, iucommimicable. 520> [Having a double sense.] Equivocalness.—M. equivocal- neps i&c. adj.; double-meaning &c. 5 16; {imhigmty, double entendre,imn, paragram, calembour, quibble, equivoque, anagram; conundrum &c. (riddle) S33; word-play &c. (toit) 842; homonym,-y; amphibo-ly,-logy; ambiloquy. Sphinx, Delphic oracle, equivocation &c. (dujdicitij) 544; white lie, mental reservation &c. (concealment) 528. V. be -equivocal &c. adj.; have two -meanings &c. 516; equivocate &c. (palter) 544. • Adj. equivocal, ambiguous, amphibolous, homonymous; double- tongued (fee. (lying) 544. 521. IWetaphor.—W. figure of speech ; fagon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism. phrase itC. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, metonymy, enallage, cata-$