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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 04:51pm on 18/01/2006
Word: thesaurize, thesaurizing.
Context: "Most obvioulsy the noble needed gold as a means of thesaurizing his wealth, and for the purchase of goods he could not produce himself." (C.R. Whittaker, "Late Roman Trade and Traders")
Searched: onelook, Phrontistery, no matches found.
Postulate: something along the lines of 'diversify'?

anyone?
Mood:: 'curious' curious
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posted by [identity profile] thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com at 10:00pm on 18/01/2006
Even if you find this one before monday you may well still be interested in limited time free OED access (http://www.oed.com/bbcwords/about.html)
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 18/01/2006
Hmm, I may at that :o Thanks!
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 10:01pm on 18/01/2006
Sorry, not even close. It actually means 'to hoard'. Originally 'thesaurus' had the sense of 'word-hoard'. Curious, though, that it's still in use in an academic volume. The latest citations for it in the OED are from the 17th century, and it is definitely listed as obsolete! I will add it to my word list!
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 18/01/2006
It didn't seem to make sense, but I was sort of branking out from my understanding of what a thesaurus is. I guess I fell of that tree :p

The book is from 1983, and is about trade in the ancient economy, in this case the Byzantine empire.
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posted by [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com at 01:29am on 19/01/2006
Branking? A brank is a scold's bridle.
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posted by [identity profile] skjaere.livejournal.com at 10:18pm on 18/01/2006
Dictionary.com doesn't list any verbs that are even close. Weird.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 11:24pm on 18/01/2006
Onelook is a better dictionary site anyway: it trawls threough a whole hoard of dictionaries, including dictionary.com and some more obscure word lists as well as most of the major dictionary/encyclopedia sites, then gives a general definition and links to more specific ones as well. I highly endorse it.
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 11:35pm on 18/01/2006
And not coincidentally, sends a metric assload of traffic my way!
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posted by [identity profile] advancedentropy.livejournal.com at 04:25am on 19/01/2006
I cannot say how much fun I've had on this onelook thing, big word geek that I am. thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:21am on 19/01/2006
Enjoy! I have to give credit to Steve for putting me on to it though, which of course he did for entirely selfless reasons ;p
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 10:55pm on 18/01/2006
Well, any expert on Byzantine history would have to be a master of classical and late antique Greek, so maybe he wasn't aware of its earlier use in English but was just re-coining it on a Greek model. Then again, maybe he *was* aware of the earlier uses (it appears in some of the early dictionaries) and was making an effort to revive it.
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