topic

Roget category 454

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.1. Operations of intellect in general
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#454. [Subject of thought] Topic

noun

subject of thought, material for thought — food for the mind, mental pabulum.
subject, subject matter — matter, theme, noemata [Gr.], topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument — motion, resolution — head, chapter — case, point — proposition, theorem — field of inquiry — moot point, problem etc. (question) 461.

verb

float in the mind, pass in the mind etc. 451.

adjective

thought of — uppermost in the mind — in petto.

adverb

under consideration — in question, in the mind — on foot, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis^† — relative to etc. 9.

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