Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Classified and Arranged So As to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition (Classic Reprint)

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From the peculiar nature and use of the Thesaurus, its Index will be found to differ, in some of its essential functions, from an alphabetical table of contents. The present Index does not merely afford an indica tion of the place where every given word or tepic occurs or is dealt with in the text; but it is intended as a guide to other expressions which may be found there. The word we look out in this Index is not that which we require, but that which we wish to avoid. It is, therefore, not necessary that every word there given should be a repetition of one in the text. It may even happen that the word selected as a guide, though suggestive of the group wanted, is wholly unfit to be com prised within it. On this account many references have been inserted in the Index when the word given will not itself be found in the text.

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