ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adj. descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn; historic; traditional,
traditionary; legendary; anecdotic † , storied; described &c v..
Phr. furor scribendi [Lat.].
595. Dissertation -- N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract,
tractate † , tractation † ; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect † ;
excursus.
commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading article; editorial;
running commentary.
investigation &c (inquiry) 461; study &c (consideration) 451; discussion &c
(reasoning) 476; exposition &c (explanation) 522.
commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer.
V. expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject † , descant upon a subject, write upon a
subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject,
take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a
subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a
subject.
hold forth [oral dissertation], discourse, delve into.
Adj. discursive, discoursive † ; disquisitionary † ; expository.
596. Compendium -- N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in
parvo [Lat.], analysis, pandect † , digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary,
apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus,
contents, heads, prospectus.
album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts,
excerpta † , cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium † , flowers, anthology,
collectanea † , analecta † ; compilation.
recapitulation, resume, review.
abbreviation, abbreviature † ; contraction; shortening &c 201; compression &c 195.
V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw
an abstract, compile an abstract &c n.. recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up.
abbreviate &c (shorten) 201; condense &c (compress) 195; compile &c (collect) 72.
Adj. compendious, synoptic, analectic † ; abrege [Fr.], abridged &c v.; variorum † .
Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words.
Phr. it lies in a nutshell.
597. Poetry -- N. poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus,
Helicon † , Pierides, Pierian spring.
versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry † .
poem; epic, epic poem; epopee † , epopoea, ode, epode † , idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral,
bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic † , sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal,
canzonet † , cento † , monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal † , palinode.
dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song
[Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music &c 415;
nursery rhymes.