Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section I. Nature of Ideas Communicated

522. Interpretation.

   NOUN:INTERPRETATION, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain -, simple -, strict- interpretation; meaning [See Meaning]; mot d’énigme [F.]; clew (indication) [See Indication].
  symptomatology, semeiology or semiology, diagnosis, prognosis; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography (philology) [See Language]; oneirology.
  TRANSLATION; rendering, rendition; reddition; literal -, free- translation; key; secret; clavis [L.], crib, pony [U. S.].
  COMMENT, commentary; exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; inference (deduction) [See Judgment]; illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium, note; enucleation, elucidation, dilucidation [obs.]; éclaircissement [F.].
  acception [obs.], acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version.
  EQUIVALENT, – meaning [See Meaning]; synonym, pœcilonym, polyonym [rare]; paraphrase, metaphrase; convertible terms, apposition.
  dictionary [See Word]; polyglot.
  PREDICTION [See Prediction]; chiromancy or cheiromancy, palmistry; astrology.
   VERB:INTERPRET, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of.
  find out &c. [See Discovery] -the meaning of [See Meaning]; read; spell out, make out; decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve; consignify [rare]; read between the lines.
  ELUCIDATE, account for; find -, tell- the cause of [See Cause]; throw -, shed- -light, -new light, – fresh light- upon; clear up.
  illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate; popularize (render intelligible) [See Intelligibility].
  UNDERSTAND BY; take -, understand -, receive -, accept- in a particular sense; put a construction on, be given to understand.
   ADJECTIVE:EXPLANATORY, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical; construable; hermeneutic or hermeneutical, interpretive, interpretative, commentarial, commentatorial, inferential, illustrative, exemplificative, exemplificational, annotative, scholiastic, elucidative; symptomatological; paleographic or paleographical.
  EQUIVALENT [See Equality]; paraphrastic, consignificative [rare], consignificant, synonymous, pœcilonymic, polyonymal [rare], polyonymic [rare].
  metaphrastic, literal [See Meaning]; polyglot.
   ADVERB:IN EXPLANATION &c. n.; that is to say, id est [L.], videlicet [L.], to wit, namely, in other words.
  LITERALLY, strictly speaking; in -plain, – plainer- -terms, – words, – English; more simply.
   QUOTATION:One must be an inventor to read well.—Emerson