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 III. Means of Communicating Ideas
3. Written Language

594. Description.

   NOUN:DESCRIPTION, account, statement, report; exposé [F.] (disclosure) [See Disclosure]; specification, particulars; summary of facts; brief (abstract) [See Compendium]; return (record) [See Record]; catalogue raisonné [F.] (list) [See List]; guidebook (information) [See Information].
  delineation (representation) [See Representation]; sketch, pastel, vignette, monograph; minute -, detailed -, particular -, circumstantial -, graphic- account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.
  NARRATIVE, history; memoir, memorials; annals (chronicle) [See Record]; saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative, journal, letters, biography, autobiography, life; obituary, necrology; adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana.
  historiography, chronography; historic Muse, Clio.
  WORK OF FICTION, novel, romance, short story; detective -story, – yarn; “grue” [Stevenson]; fairy -, nursery- tale; fable, parable, apologue, allegory; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker [slang].
  RELATOR &c. v.; raconteur [F.]; historiographer, chronographer, historian (recorder) [See Recorder]; biographer, fabulist, novelist, story-teller, romancer, spinner of yarns, teller of tales, anecdotist, word-painter; writer [See Book].
   VERB:DESCRIBE; set forth (state) [See Affirmation]; draw a picture, picture; portray (represent) [See Representation]; characterize, analyze, give words to, narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one’s battles over again; harrow up the soul, hold one breathless, novelize, romance.
  unfold (disclose) [See Disclosure]- a tale; tell; give -, render- an account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement; throw into -essay form, – book form; stick to the facts, show life as it is; historicize.
  DETAIL, particularize, itemize; enter into -, descend to- -particulars, – details.
   ADJECTIVE:DESCRIPTIVE, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn; historic or historical, historiographical, chronographic or chronographical, biographic or biographical, autobiographical; traditive [esp., from ancestors to descendants], traditional, traditionary; legendary, mythical, fabulous; anecdotic, storied; described &c. v.; romantic, idealistic; realistic, true to life; expository.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Furor scribendi.
2. To hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature.—Hamlet