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Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869

"Roget's Thesaurus"

(misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884.
Adj. exaggerated &c. v.; overwrought; bombastic &c. (grandiloquent)
577; hyperbolical[obs3], on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous,
egregious, outre[Fr], highflying[obs3].
Adv. hyperbolically &c adj.
Phr. excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Lat][Cicero].
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Section III. MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS
1. Natural Means
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<-- recognition of something by its features must be broken out into a
separate entry. Include the terms recognition, identification,
dereplication, classification; note memory 505, identification (comparison,
464, discovery 480a)
distinguish recognition and recall in technical sense -->
#550. Indication -- N. indication; symbolism, symbolization;
semiology, semiotics, semeiology[obs3], semeiotics[obs3]; Zeitgeist.
[means of recognition: property] characteristic, diagnostic;
lineament, feature, trait; fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint
[for animals]; cloven hoof; footfall; recognition (memory) 505.
[means of recognition: tool] diagnostic, divining rod; detector.
sign, symbol; index, indice|, indicator; point, pointer; exponent,
note, token, symptom; dollar sign, dollar mark.
type, figure, emblem, cipher, device; representation &c.


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