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Definition of Roget
1. Noun. English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roget
Literary usage of Roget
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Correspondence: Dr Roget, Addington, Abbot, Morton Pitt.—Project of a Frigidarium.
... How long I remained in this * Now Dr Roget, the son of ..."
2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Explanation of an Optical Deception in the Appearance of the Spokes of a Wheel
seen through vertical Apertures. By PM Roget ..."
3. Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the by William Patten, Broughton Brandenburg, P.F. Collier & Son Corporation (1906)
"Now, this * Upon the original publication of " Marie Roget," the footnotes now
appended were considered unnecessary ; but the lapse of several years since ..."
4. The Christian Examiner and General Review edited by Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware (1836)
"By PETER MARK Roget, MD, Secretary to the Royal Society, Sic. In Two Volumes.
London : William Pickering. 11334. 8vo. pp. 593 and 661. ..."
5. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1840)
"The portion of the Appendix thus already analysed, appears to have been written
and published by Dr. Roget in 1818 or '10. The portion which we purpose to ..."
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