| 单词 | memorative faculty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmemorative faculty 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. < as lemmas |
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