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▪ I. remiˈniscent, n.
[f. as next.]
A relater or writer of reminiscences.
1822C. Butler Reminisc. (ed. 3) I. 4 No one ever discovered a passion for literature at an earlier hour in his life than the Reminiscent. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLII. 76 This reminiscent is not a good converser. 1869Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) II. 331 It is the excellence of a reminiscent to have a few good stories.
▪ II. reminiscent, a.|rɛmɪˈnɪsənt|
[f. L. reminiscent-em, pres. pple. of reminiscī: see reminiscence.]
1. Pertaining to, characterized by, reminiscence.
1765Universal Mag. XXXVII. 356/2 Men, in their sentient, imaginative, and reminiscent part,..are..subject to diseases. 1837Southey Doctor cxxix. (1848) 327 The Biographer, or Historian,..or rather the reminiscent relator of circumstances. 1855Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) I. 1 The evident fiction of reminiscent age—striving and failing to remember. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 146/2 The most careful reminiscent accuracy.
b. Having reminiscence of something.
1830Fraser's Mag. I. 151 A more perfect state of being—a state of which it is reminiscent and anticipant. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxiv. (1859) II. 278 Some other state of existence, of which we have been previously conscious and are now reminiscent.
2. Of the nature of reminiscence or reminiscences.
1863Cornh. Mag. VII. 391 Some of the charms of youth reminiscent in the grey dignity of acknowledged age. 1883J. Burroughs in Century Mag. Nov. 103/2 There is..a pensive, reminiscent feeling in the air itself. 1892Independent 25 Nov. 220/2 The talk on the way was reminiscent.
3. Evoking a reminiscence of a person or thing.
1880Academy 13 Nov. 352 He is strangely reminiscent of Millais. 1891Speaker 2 May 527/2 The verse..is..reminiscent of the style of Rowe.
Hence remiˈniscently adv.
1891Cotes 2 Girls on a Barge 23 ‘The Cadet’, quoth Girton, reminiscently, ‘did that rather well’. |