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

595. Dissertation.

   NOUN:DISSERTATION, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; tract, tractate, tractation [obs.]; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect, digest; excursus.
  investigation (inquiry) [See Inquiry]; study (consideration) [See Thought]; discussion (reasoning) [See Reasoning]; exposition (explanation) [See Interpretation].
  COMMENTARY, commentation, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading article; editorial; running commentary.
  COMMENTATOR, critic, essayist, pamphleteer, publicist, reviewer, leader writer, editor, annotator.
   VERB:COMMENT, explain, interpret, criticize, illuminate; dissert [rare] -, descant -, write -, touch- upon a subject; treat of -, take up -, ventilate -, discuss -, deal with -, go into -, canvass -, handle -, do justice to- a subject; show the true inwardness of.
   ADJECTIVE:DISQUISITIONAL, disquisitive, disquisitionary [rare]; expository, commentarial, commentatorial, critical.
  DISCURSIVE, discoursive, digressive, desultory.