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

598. Prose.

   NOUN:PROSE, prosaism, prosaicness, prosaicism [rare]; poetic prose; history (description) [See Description].
  PROSE WRITER, essayist, monographer, monographist, novelist; raconteur [F.] [See Description].
   VERB:PROSE; write -prose, – in prose.
   ADJECTIVE:PROSAIC, prosy, prosal [obs.]; unpoetical.
  rimeless or rhymeless, unrimed or unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.
   QUOTATION:Prose,—words in their best order.—Coleridge