单词 | memorative |
释义 | memorativeadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to the memory; esp. in memorative faculty, memorative power, memorative virtue. Chiefly archaic in later use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [adjective] memoriala1400 memorative?c1425 recollective1647 mnemonic1825 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 41 (MED) The brayne after þe lengþe haþ þre ventrycles or wombes, and eueriche wombe haþ two partes, and in euery parte is organyzed a vertue..in þe hyndermore..þe vertu seruatyf, i. kepynge, and memoratif, i. hauing in mynde. 1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute (Caxton) sig. C4 The vertue memoratyf callyd remembraunce. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xiii. sig. E.iiv The .v. parte [of rethoryke] is than memoratyfe The whiche the perfyte mynystracyon Ordynatly causeth to be retentyfe. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Qq2 Voyde of sensible memorye, or memoratiue passion. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 799 Polymneia ruleth and preserveth the vertue memorative, and the desire of knowledge and learning, which is in the soule. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 8 How the Species, Order, and Circumstances of things are preserved in the Memorative Faculty or Organ. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Memorative, belonging to the Memory; as The memorative Power. 1876 Catholic World Dec. 414/1 A man who..boasted of retaining his intellective and memorative powers unimpaired, and yet..he could not construct the shortest sentence coherently. 1885 Ld. Lytton Glenaveril I. ii. vi. 224 No miracle Of memorative power, however great, A statesman or a poet can create. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] artificial memoryc1545 art of memoryc1545 art memorative1576 mnemonic1662 mnemonics1721 memoria technica1730 mnemotechnics1845 mnemotechny1845 anamnestica1856 Pelmanism1916 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 303 (margin) This Simonides was the first inuenter of the Art memoratiue. c1578 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 77 But see a fitt of my arte memorative. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxviii. 383 Manye haue..made a memoratiue art, appointing places and their furniture, for the helpe of such as are vnexperienced. a1628 J. Doddridge Eng. Lawyer (1631) 23 The precepts of Art Memorative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [adjective] memorialc1390 memoranda1400 anniversary1449 memorative1449 memorala1500 recordative?1551 memorizing1600 commemorative1612 commemoratory1695 commemorating1766 commemorational1880 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 1545 The memoratyff dart had woundyd hym so sore Off Cleopes bryght chere. c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 191 His successours..did no faites digne to be regestred, ne worthy to be had in repoort memorative. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. iv. sig. n.vi The relique the shryne full memoratyue Was brought to Chestre for our consolacion. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxix. 191 No where in booke: memorative wyth iust men have they place. 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx xlvii. sig. S Shee..hath..for euer abandoned me and mine house, as the memoratiue Springes that a fresh should flow to her sorrowes. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. (1618) 402 Melchisedec, which figured out this memoratiue sacrifice, brought forth bread and wine. 1607 Bp. J. Hall Holy Observ. 127 The minde doth secretly frame to it self memoratiue heads, wherby it recalls easily the same conceits. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xvi. ccvii. 256 About this fair Irradiation's Scene thus scudding here Millions of Memorative Figures were. 1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland II. 193 A memorative epitaph for the worthy and loving Colonel Thomas Barwise. 1835 T. Carlyle Jrnl. 8 Feb. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) I. i. 20 Vernal weather of all kinds,..to me most memorative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > [adjective] > having a good memory memorative1481 retentive1589 revocative1654 recollective1738 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xxiii. 186 Thaugh he had..a thousand hertes within his body the most subtyle and the most memoratyf that myght be taken. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. K3 (For so goes the prouerbe) a good liar must be memoratiue. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. vii. 265 A respectiue memory and a memoratiue prouidence must of force go together. 1695 tr. Martial i. xxvii. 38 A memorative drunkard all men hate [Gk. Μισῶ μνάμονα συμπόταν]. ΚΠ 1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) iv. xvii. 341 Shee blusheth and palleth as being conscious and memorative of what she had lately caused to be perpetrated by Tivoly. 1657 G. G. D'Ouvilly False Favourit Disgrac'd ii. i. 34 Weepe on, sad Soul! and may thy teares Make thee memorative of hers! A memorial; something which serves as a reminder. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > memorial minginga1225 memory?c1225 mindc1300 memoriala1382 memoranda1400 memorativec1487 remembrativea1500 meaning1503 monument1531 commemorative1636 memoira1711 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 172 Belesus..sware..to raise vp a grete monstruous hepe of a wondre height, that all men which sailed by the watre of Eufrates myght see a perpetuall memorative [L. monumentum] how the roialme of the Assirians was distroyed. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxix. 396 Shorte sentences and memoratiues, as Know thy selfe, Vse moderation, Beware of suretishippe, and the like. 1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 137 As Rites, as helpes, as memoratiues of such duties. 1690 E. Gee Jesuit's Mem. Pref. 1 The Notes and Observations of this Memorative following were gathered and laid together in time of Persecution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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