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memorable, a. and n.|ˈmɛmərəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. memorābilis, f. memorāre: see memorate v. and -able. Cf. F. mémorable, Sp. memorable, Pg. memoravel, It. memorabile.]
A. adj.
1. Worthy of remembrance or note; worth remembering; not to be forgotten.
1483Rolls of Parlt. VI. 241/1 The memorable and laudable Acts in diverse Batalls. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xv. 16 b, A succinct description of the yland, and memorable things thereof. 1650Marvell Horatian Ode 58 He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene. 1709Steele Tatler No. 86 ⁋3 It is memorable of the mighty Caesar, that when he was murdered in the Capitol..he gathered his Robe about him, that he might fall in a decent Posture. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 40 It hardly contains a memorable line or passage. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iii. v. (1872) I. 163 That is his one feat memorable to me at present. 1895Law Times C. 3/1 An interesting record of a most memorable and successful innovation in our legal system.
2. Easy to be remembered. rare.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iv. 53 Witnesse our too much memorable shame. 1658Phillips, Memorable, easie to be remembred. 1881Ruskin Love's Meinie I. iii. 99 The easily memorable root ‘dab’, short for dabble. 1882S. Cox Miracles (1884) 14 Hence it [the Mosaic account of the Creation] must of necessity be concise, simple, memorable.
3. Awakening memories of. rare.
1872Howells Wedd. Journ. 248 The marshy meadows beyond, memorable of Recollets and Jesuits.
B. n. pl. = memorabilia. Also (rare) sing.
1611Coryat Crudities 470 These memorables of Germany. 1613Jackson Creed i. xxviii. §1 Recorded..as one of the chiefe memorables in his raigne. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. i. (1852) 251 If no speedy care be taken to preserve the memorables of our first settlement. 1813Scott Fam. Lett. 13 July, I spent part of Sunday in showing them the Abbey and other memorables. 1823― St. Ronan's xxvi. (near end), The other memorable [1830–2 memorabile] is of a more delicate nature, respecting the conduct of a certain fair lady. 1856Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 237 These were all the memorables of our visit.
Hence ˈmemorableness, memorability; ˈmemorably adv., in a memorable manner; so as to be remembered.
1727Bailey vol. II, Memorableness. 1755Johnson, Memorably, in a manner worthy of memory. 1832Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 259 It is well worth the Artist's while to examine for himself what it is that gives such pitiful incidents their memorableness. 1832― J. Carlyle 34, I never saw him but once, and then rather memorably. 1885Manch. Exam. 12 Aug. 3/1 The power of so conceiving characters as to impress us strongly and memorably with their varied individualities. |