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
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1894
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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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    rate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ger on the lips; sotto voce; in a -low tone, - cracked voice, - broken voice. Phr. vox faucibus hcesit. ear. Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejacula- toiy, articiilate, distinct, stertorous; eu- phonious &c. (melodious) 413. 582. Speech.—W. speech, fa- culty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral com- munication, word of mouth, parole, pa- laver, prattle ; effusion. oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, ti- rade, formal speech, peroration ; speechi- fying; soliloquy &c. 589; allocution &c. 586; interlocution &c. 588. oratory; elo-cution,-quence; rhetoric, declamation; grandi-, multi-loquence ; burst of eloquence ; facimdity; flow -, command- of -words, - language; copia verbomm; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi. speaker &c. v.; spokesman; pro-, in- ter-locutor; mouthpiece, Hermes ; ora- tor, -trix, -tress ; Demosthenes, Cicero ; rhetorician ; stump -, platform- orator ; speechmaker, patterer, impi-ovisatore. v. speak, - of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to ; utter -, pour- forth ; breathe, let fall, come out with ; rap -, blurt- out; have on one's lips ; have at the -end, - tip- of one's tongue. break silence; open one's -lips, - mouth; lift -, raise- one's voice; give -, wag the- tongue ; talk, outspeak ; put in a word or two. hold forth; make -, deliver- -a speech &c. n.; speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, spout, rant, recite, lecture, sermonize, dis- course, be on one's legs; have -, say- one's say; expatiate Sic. {speaJc at length) 573 ; speak one's mind. soliloquize &c. 589; tell &c. {inform) 527; speak to &c. 586; talk together &c. 588. be -eloquent kc. adj.; have -a tongue in one's head, - the gift of the gab &c. n. * pass -, escape- one's lips ; fall from the -lips, - mouth. Adj. speaking &c., spoken &c. ?;.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not writ- ten, unwritten, outspoken; elo-quent, -cutionary; orat-, rhet-orical; declamatoiy; grandiloquent &c. 577; talkative &c. 584. Adv. orally &c. adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of. Phr. quoth -, said- he, &c. 583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stam- mering*.— N. inarticulateness; stam- mering &c. v.; hesitation &c. v.; impedi- ment in one's speech ; titubancy, trau- lism; whisper &c. {faint sound) 405 ; lisp, drawl, tardiloquence; nasal -tone, - accent; twang ; falsetto &c. {want of voice) 581 ; broken -voice, - accents, - sentences. brogue &c. 563; slip of the tongue, lapsus linc/U(S. V. stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbu-tiate, -cinate ; haw, hum and haw, be maable to put two words together. mumble, mutter; maund, -er; whis- per &c. 405; mince,lisp; jabber, gibber; sp-, spl-utter; mvifile, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak -thick, - through the nose ; snuffle, clip one's words; mur- der the -language, - King's {or Queen's) English; mis-pronounce, -say. Adj. stammering &c. i;.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous. Adv. sotto voce &c. {faintly) 405. 584. Iioquacity.—wr. loquac- ity, -iousness; talkativeness &c. adj.; garrulity; multiloquence, much speak- ing. jaw ; gab,-ble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle. 585. Taciturnity.—w. silence, muteness, obmutescence; taciturnity, pauciloquy, costiveness, curtness; re- serve, reticence &c. {concealment?) 528. man of few words. V. be-silent 8zq. adj.; keep silence ;
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