Memory /(?)/
Mem·o·ry
Memory
n.
pl. Memories
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The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memory is the purveyor of reason.
- The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
- The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
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The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining.
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Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
The memory of the just is blessed.
That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.
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A memorial. [Obs.]
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Phrases & Compounds
- To draw to memory
- to put on record; to record.