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The ''Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary'' (''HTOED'') is the print edition of the largest thesaurus in the world, the ''Historical Thesaurus of English'' (''HTE''), conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. The ''HTE'' is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of ''The Oxford English Dictionary'', arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the ''HTE'' arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside types and dates of use. It is the first historical thesaurus to be compiled for any of the world's languages and contains 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words, within 230,000 categories, covering more than 920,000 words and meanings. As the ''HTE'' website states, "in addition to providing hitherto unavailable information for linguistic and textual scholars, the ''Historical Thesaurus'' online is a rich resource for students of social and cultural history, showing how concepts developed through the words that refer to them." The ambitious project was announced at a 1965 meeting of the Philological Society by its originator, Michael Samuels. Work on the ''HTE'' started in 1965 and version 1.0 was published as a two-volume set as ''HTOED'' on 22 October 2009, after 44 years of work. It consists of two slipcased hardcover volumes, totaling nearly 4,000 pages. The ''HTE'', released as version 4.2 in September 2014, is freely available online from the University of Glasgow. ==Main sections== The work is divided into three main sections: the External World, the Mind, and Society. These are broken down into successively narrower domains. The text eventually discriminates more than 236,000 categories. The second order categories are:〔 An oversize, one-page listing of all categories in top three tiers is available for download here.〕 ;I. The External World # The Earth # Life # Physical sensibility # Matter # Existence # Relative properties # The Supernatural ;II. The Mind # Soul, spirit, mind # Emotion/feeling # Judgement, opinion # Aesthetics # Will/faculty of will # Expectation # Having/possession # Languages ;III. Society # Society/life in association with others # Inhabiting/dwelling # Relations between social groups # Authority # Law # Education # Religion # Communications # Travel/travelling # Work / Serious occupation # Leisure/The Arts 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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