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Roget, Peter Mark
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Roget, Peter Mark (1779–1869)

English physician and scholar, one of the founders of the University of London, and author of a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a text constantly revised and still in print, offering a range of words classified according to underlying concepts and meanings, as an aid to more effective expression and communication.
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