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memorialist|mɪˈmɔərɪəlɪst|
[f. memorial n. + -ist.]
1. One who addresses or presents a memorial.
1713Steele Guardian No. 128 ⁋2 The nauseous memorialist, with the most fulsom flattery tells the queen of her thunder. 1741in G. Sheldon Hist. Deerfield, Mass. (1895) I. 491 Your Memorialist Humbly prays that a consideration of the sd affair may be had. 1858Greener Gunnery 345 And memorialist, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
2. A writer of biographical or historical memorials.
1766Ann. Reg. ii. 29 The pains..the celebrated memorialist takes to gloss over her actions. 1832Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 559 We purpose to collect from these obscure, but most interesting memorialists, a few sketches and biographical portraits of these great princes. 1903Morley Gladstone I. i. 1 In one sense a statesman's contemporaries..must be the best if not the only true memorialists and recorders.
†3. One who has a good memory. Obs.
1719Freethinker III. 40 Others..look on a mere Memorialist as an ill-digested Commonplace Book. |