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Memory   /mˈɛməri/   Listen
noun
Memory  n.  (pl. memories)  
1.
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. "Memory is the purveyor of reason."
2.
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.
3.
The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
4.
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."
5.
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."
6.
A memorial. (Obs.) "These weeds are memories of those worser hours."
Synonyms: Memory, Remembrance, Recollection, Reminiscence. Memory is the generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past impressions. Remembrance is an exercise of that power when things occur spontaneously to our thoughts. In recollection we make a distinct effort to collect again, or call back, what we know has been formerly in the mind. Reminiscence is intermediate between remembrance and recollection, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences, but without that full and varied reference to particular things which characterizes recollection. "When an idea again recurs without the operation of the like object on the external sensory, it is remembrance; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavor found, and brought again into view, it is recollection."
To draw to memory, to put on record; to record. (Obs.)





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"Memory" Quotes from Famous Books



... let one's memory begin to fetch passages from Byron striking the same note as that passage from Llywarch Hen, and she will not soon stop. And all Byron's heroes, not so much in collision with outward things, as breaking on some rock of revolt and misery ...
— Celtic Literature • Matthew Arnold
... memory dear: he was off like a lamplighter. An alcoholic apple-woman picked me up and escorted me back to the hospital. It must have been a touching spectacle," he added, with a dry ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... shadow dims your joyance sweet, No baffled hope or memory darkly clad; You lay your whiteness at the Lord's dear feet, And are ...
— Verses • Susan Coolidge
... fight, his tall figure towering above the rest, and his soldier's uniform buttoned over a dark tress of hair, and a face like Bell Cameron's, Lieutenant Bob had taken two or three furloughs, but the one which had left the sweetest, pleasantest memory in his heart was that of the autumn before, when the crimson leaves of the maple and the golden tints of the beech were burning themselves out on the hills of Silverton, where his furlough was mostly passed, and where, with Bell Cameron, he scoured the length and breadth of Uncle Ephraim's ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... Centuries. Narrowly confined to the representation of conventional types of saints, these arts did not acquire either personality or expression for two centuries. It was not until the Eighteenth Century that they began to raise statues to the memory of Russia's great men: one of the first monuments was consecrated, as was indeed just, to Peter the Great, Russia's great reformer; in his lifetime, Count Bartolomeo Rastrelli the sculptor, father of ...
— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various


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