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noun

Memorial n.

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument. "Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself."

A memorandum; a record. (Obs. or R.)

A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., often accompanied with a petition.

Memory; remembrance. (Obs.) "Precious is the memorial of the just."

(Diplomacy) A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

adjective

Memorial adj.

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building. "There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame."

Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.

Mnemonic; assisting the memory. "This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH."

Memorial Day. See Memorial Day in the vocabulary. Also called Decoration Day. (U.S.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Memorial" Quotes from Famous Books

... Memorial Day came round, and all the land showed its sorrow for the innumerable host that perished untimely in deadly battle and deadlier hospital by keeping the day right joyously. This gave Millard a holiday, and he set off after a lazy breakfast to walk up Fifth Avenue and ...

— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... pleaded for him with so much dignity and feeling before Judge Hale and other justices, died in 1692. In 1661 a recumbent statue was placed on his tomb in Bunhill Fields, and thirteen years later a noble statue was erected in his honor at Bedford. The church at Elstow is enriched with memorial windows presenting scenes from the 'Holy War' and the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' and the Bunyan Meeting-House in Bedford has bronze doors ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various

... which attended upon our effort was the best proof that we had correctly appreciated the universal desire of the Irish people to possess themselves of such a memorial of National Protest—protest ...

— Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various

... kirkyard, with a sinking ship and a shoreless sea cut upon it. Then the spectre ships vanish, and the drowning shriek of mortals and the rejoicing laugh of fiends are heard, and the old hulls are left as a memorial that the old spiritual kingdom has not departed from the earth. But I maun away, and trim my little cottage fire, and make it burn and blaze up bonnie, to warm the crickets and my cold and crazy bones that ...

— Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland • Anonymous

... churchyard of Areley-Kings, Worcestershire (where is the singular memorial to Sir Harry Coningsby, which I mentioned at Vol. vi., {225} p. 406.), is a curious dial, the pillar supporting which has its four sides carved with figures of Time and Death, ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 • Various

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