Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary : with additional material from "A Thesaurus of Old English / [edited by] Christian Kay... [et al.].
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- 9780199208999 (case)
- PE 1591 .H629 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
v. 1. Thesaurus -- v. 2. Index.
Known as the first historical thesaurus to include almost the entire vocabulary of English, from Old English to the present day. This historical thesaurus is arranged according to: 1) Thematic organization - words grouped together according to their meaning 2) Chronological order - synonyms ordered according to the first recorded date of the meaning in English 3) Language change - entries trace how expressions for a particular meaning have changed over time 4) Historical usage - discover which words were available at a particular time.
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