[lit-ideas] My First Thesaurus
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:18:26 EST
In a message dated 1/25/2005 2:06:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I cannot think of another word for 'thesaurus'
Strange that such an authoritative volume would suddenly fall silent
with respect to itself.
How about "Synonym Finder" --as in _The Rodale Synonym Finder_?
And how about synonyms for "synonym"?
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Right. Actually, the query about 'thesaurus', I got from The Reader's Digest
-- and I had seen the 'synonym' query in a Notes and Queries issue of the
Guardian. The OED provides a synonym for 'thesaurus', the Scots expression,
'thesaury':
1639 SPOTTISWOOD Hist. Ch. Scot. VII. (1677) 517
His Uncle..was made Deputy in the Office of Thesaury.
But perhaps this is a different (Scots) legal use, since the other cites do
not seem to refer to books, at all.
1688 Addr. Sc. Privy C. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2388/2
They..have got Pay for the Month of October instant out of Your Majesties
Thesaury.
1708 [see THESAURER].
Cheers,
JL
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