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memoryn. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French memoire; Latin memoria. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman memoire, memore, memorie, memoir, memor, memour, Old French memorie, memoire, memore (11th cent.; French mémoire ) and their etymon classical Latin memoria < memor mindful, remembering (a reduplicated formation (compare ancient Greek μέρμερος baneful, fastidious) < the Indo-European base of Sanskrit smṛi- : see martyr n.) + -ia -ia suffix1. The major senses ‘power or faculty of memory; this personified; action or fact of remembering; that which is retained in the mind; repute; period covered by one's memory; collective memory, tradition; period known to history; tradition preserved in writing; record, mention, memorial’ are found already in classical Latin, and most of the major senses in English are paralleled in French. Compare also Spanish memoria (1235), Portuguese memória (1255), Italian memoria (a1294). In sense 8 probably also influenced by Middle French memoire (masculine) written account, description (see memoir n.).Old English mimorian to remember, and gemimor existing in the memory probably show a loan < classical Latin memorāre (see memorate v.). There is no etymological connection between classical Latin memor and meminisse to remember (see memento n.). Littré notes s.v. that metrical evidence suggests that even in the earliest Old French sources spellings in -orie are purely etymological; however, the English β. forms doubtless arise from the late retention of unmetathesized forms of this ending which is characteristic of Anglo-Norman (compare -ory suffix1). In recent Scots literary use in form memore at α. forms probably revived from dictionary record. I. Senses relating to the action or process of commemorating, recollecting, or remembering. the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > memorial ?c1225 (Cleo.: Scribe B) (1972) 21 (margin) Þe Memoires of þe halhen. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 7957 (MED) Þe þryde he offreþ to haue memory For soules þat are in purgatory. c1410 tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 81 Þe abbot..ordeyned þat..after þe feste of All Halwes schulde be hadde þe memorie for dede men soules. 1463 in S. Tymms (1850) 18 I wille Seynt Marie preest..to say a memorie of requiem for vs. 1558 in J. Strype (1709) I. App. iv. 6 If there be some other devout sort of prayers or memory said. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in 454 Their memories, their singings, and their gifts. 1853 D. Rock IV. xii. 125 After the collect for the day..came the ‘memories’, or, as we now call them, ‘commemorations’. 1885 R. W. Dixon III. xviii. 283 And I am told that there are women of title who boldly demand memories to be celebrated when there are no communicants. 2. the mind > mental capacity > memory > have in one's mind, remember [verb (intransitive)] the mind > mental capacity > memory > call to mind, recollect [verb (transitive)] the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > [adjective] > remembered the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adverb] a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 277 in A. S. M. Clark (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 100 Alle þat habbet me a day ine memorie..ihesu crist..haue merci of þe soules. c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) 5 in K. Brunner (1913) 81 (MED) Miri it is to heren his stori And of him to han in memorie. c1390 G. Chaucer 3112 It was a..storie..worthy for to drawen to memorie. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) Prol. 1002 Who so drawth into memoire What hath befalle. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iv. 659 (MED) Al was clene out of memoire. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. 2386 (MED) Tak into memoire..Ther lasteth nothing bot a throwe. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) 5752 Sich as..toward God have no memorie. c1450 ( G. Chaucer 945 Hyr throte, as I have now memoyre, Semed a round tour of yvoyre. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in (1998) I. 34 Haveing his passioun in memorie. 1549 R. Crowley sig. Ciiiv Se thou cal to memory The ende wherfore al men are made. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster sig. Bviij This beaste..doth wonderfulli beare in memorie benefytes shewed vnto him. 1590 J. Smythe 2 The most of the which that shall fall into my memorie. 1611 1 Cor. xv. 2 If yee keepe in memorie what I preached vnto you. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 135 They would..begge a haire of him for Memory, And dying, mention it within their Willes. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 18 in Wee haue memory not of one Shipp that euer returned. 1638 T. Herbert (rev. ed.) 25 Suffer me (whiles in memory) to tell you of a fish or 2 which in these seas were obvious. 1669 S. Sturmy ii. xiii. 82 Keeping in memory such standing of the Staff, I take off the one Cross, and set the Staff again. 1681 H. Dodwell 12 He quoted him by memory, and at the Second hand. 1760 B. Franklin Let. ?Nov. in (1966) IX. 250 Since I cannot find the Notes of my Experiment to send you, I must give it as well as I can from Memory. 1797 M. Robinson IV. lxxxiv. 182 All that had passed he recalled to memory, though I wished most earnestly to bury the prominent events in eternal oblivion. 1803 W. Wordsworth in 17 Sept. i. xvii When I have borne in memory what has tam'd Great nations. 1856 G. Grote XII. ii. xcviii. 647 A considerable portion of the Greeks of Olbia could repeat the Iliad from memory. 1879 A. Trollope i. 46 The piece was all given by memory. 1898 H. James Turn of Screw xv, in 112 Even as I fixed and, for memory, secured it, the awful image passed away. 1915 W. Cather vi. vii. 437 Her glassy eye took in the fact that Fred was playing from memory. 1955 26 July 10/5 Everyone..remembers the name of Bunsen and his burner—even if nothing else remains in memory from those hours in the ‘labs’. 1976 D. Francis viii. 124 I could already have drawn Hudson's eyes from memory. the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered 1801 J. Austen 26 May (1995) 90 She is..very fond of talking of her deceased brother & Sister, whose memories she cherishes. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere in (new ed.) I. 156 You put strange memories in my head. 1877 H. H. Boyesen ii. iv. 123 How many long-forgotten memories of childhood and youth did they not wake in her bosom? 1929 R. Hughes ix. 242 He suddenly found himself remembering at least forty things about her—an overwhelming flood of memories. 1998 A. Goodman iv. vi. 237 Her dread of the next day's audience with the Rav brings back a long-forgotten memory of the night before a contest at school. the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > person or thing remembered 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in (new ed.) II. 32 The darling of my manhood, and, alas! Now the most blessed memory of mine age. 1886 A. Birrell in 50 28 The first great fact to remember is, that the Edmund Burke we are all agreed in regarding as one of the proudest memories of the House of Commons was an Irishman. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [noun] > perpetuated memory a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 303 in A. S. M. Clark (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 105 Ho ir þider beren mid gode memorie. 1340 (1866) 107 (MED) Þe memorie is zuo cleuiynde ine him þet ne of no þing þenche bote ine him. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xxxix. 13 Þe memorie of hym shal not gon awei. ?c1450 (1891) 495 Þe whilk place, for þe childes memour, Es halden ȝit in grete honour. 1490 W. Caxton tr. xxvii. 102 Memore shalbe therof as longe as heuyn & erthe shall last. 1600 W. Shakespeare iv. iii. 75 Their memory Shall as a pattern, or a measure liue. View more context for this quotation 1611 Prov. x. 7 The memorie of the iust is blessed. View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon (new ed.) 60 Vse the Memory of thy Predecessor fairly, and tenderly. 1640 R. Brathwait xxiv. 186 With your favour be it, that I reteine so thankfull a memory of his professed fancie, as for the present to affiance my selfe to none. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius 125 Cyril of Alexandria, whose memory the Greeks celebrate on the 9. of June. 1711 J. Swift 28 May (1948) I. 281 I..promised to do what I could to help him to a service, which I did for Harry Tenison's memory. 1781 E. Gibbon II. xvii. 44 The memory of Constantine has been deservedly censured for another innovation which corrupted military discipline. 1838 T. Arnold (1846) I. vi. 213 His father's memory..was regarded with respect and affection. 1868 E. A. Freeman II. vii. 44 He has left a dark and sad memory behind him. 1910 E. M. Forster xxxviii. 306 I have my children and the memory of my dear wife to consider. 1917 ‘Ramacharaka’ vi. 105 These akasic records contain the ‘memory’ of all that has passed. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ 33 His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him. 1987 J. Rule i. 8 The memory of David's dead father also helped to stay his hand. 2010 J. Tran v. 128 The commencement of eternal worship will turn attention away from—‘not coming to mind’—the memory of suffering. the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > period covered by a1460 in A. C. Swinton (1883) App. xlii The qwhilk said landis..passit memor of mene has bene..a tenandry. 1487 in C. Innes (1837) 618 In paceabill possessione..at our the memori of men. 1530 W. Tyndale sig. Dvij And in his lawe he [sc. the pope] thrust in fayned gyftes of old emperours that were out of memorye. 1542 in J. Stuart (1844) I. 439 Vsit and perseruit all tymes bigane, past memor of man. 1576 W. Lambarde 9 Within memorie almost the one halfe of the first sorte be disparked. 1630 in C. H. L. Ewen (1929) 27 The Castell of Colchester..hath ben tyme out of memory of man reputed & knowne to be the Comon Goale for this County. 1644 J. Milton (ed. 2) 54 Why then is Pilat branded through all memory? a1676 M. Hale De Jure Maris i. vi, in F. Hargrave (1787) 35 That the river of the Severn usque filum aquæ was time out of memory parcell of that manor. 1711 J. Addison No. 13. ¶4 He..has drawn together greater Audiences than have been known in the Memory of Man. 1849 T. B. Macaulay i. init. I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of king James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. 1870 L. Toulmin Smith 213 (margin) The gild was begun at a time beyond the memory of man. 1969 J. McPhee in 13 Dec. 65/1 There is..a powerful tradition in the Highlands of odium toward factors, and Colonsay, since time out of memory, has not been an exception. 1987 25 June 5/2 This week's auctions bring to an end one of the most remarkable wool-selling seasons in memory. 1992 Sept. 116/3 The pirating free-for-all continued until well within the memory of many townspeople today. the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > being remembered c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 1086 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 335 Þis sa schort tyme gane ves þat ȝet it is in memor fresch. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour (Adv.) i. 14 To put in wryt a suthfast story, That it lest ay furth in memory. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. i. 1 To thentent that the..featis of armes..shulde..be..put in perpetuall memory. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 15 And this is that which is worthy memorie..touching the warres of these Amazones. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iii. 51 That euer-liuing man of Memorie, Henrie the fift. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton 1 To say, or doe ought worth memory. 1656 T. Stanley II. vi. 40 Mortall Nature,..obtaineth eternal memory by the greatnesse of such works. 1667 J. Caryll v. vii. 59 What I have done deserves no memory; I little did, because I did not dye. 1755 S. Johnson Memory,..Exemption from oblivion. 1794 F. G. Waldron ii. 23 You spoke of such, But still forgot to give them to me; now They're not worth memory. 1851 W. C. Roscoe ii. ii. 33 The young Cornelius, or I have forgotten Features worth memory. 1876 G. W. Thornbury 74 'T was a brave act to crush his pride—Worthy of memory yet. II. Senses relating to the faculty of recalling to mind. 6. the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > of individual the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] c1380 G. Chaucer 339 Right as a man hath sapiences thre: Memorie, engyn, and intellect. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) i. 125 (MED) So febled was his celle retentif..That lost were bothe memorie and resoun. c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 395 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 140 For in til a man visdome Is, & of þat ane þare procedis vndirstandynge, memore, & wite. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1959) x. Prol. 70 Rayson decernis, memor kepis the consait. 1530 J. Palsgrave 666/2 I commende it to memorie. c1540 A. Borde C iij b It doth acuat, quycken, and refreshe, the memorye. 1694 J. Locke (new ed.) i. iv. 35 By the memory it [sc. an idea] can be made an actual perception again. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu 16 Mar. (1965) I. 390 The Memory can retain but a certain Number of Images. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in 2nd Ser. III. 19 Our memory is, of all our powers of mind, that which is peculiarly liable to be suspended. 1855 H. Spencer iv. viii. 596 The subject-matter of memory is retrospective. 1886 R. L. Stevenson i. 6 Drink a spooneful or two... It is good against the Gout; it comforts the heart and strengthens the memory. 1906 C. S. Sherrington ix. 330 The relative haste with which an animal when hungry approaches food..suggests that conation attaches to the visual reaction by association through memory with affective tone. 1910 A. Bierce III. 68 I have never forgotten that number, and always it comes to memory attended by gibbering obscenity, peals of joyless laughter, the clang of iron doors. 1923 L. H. Dawson 230 Pelmanism is..a splendid exercise for the memory. 1955 H. E. Garrett x. 381 The phenomena of memory may be classified under the four headings fixation or acquisition, retention, recall, and recognition... Each of these four processes is a necessary part of memory. 1984 D. Meltzer i. 15 Memory, unlike recall, is dynamic and reconstructive, subject to all manner of incompleteness, distortion, coalescence and addition. c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus v. 359 The solacyous viridary & moste lusty herber of Dame Memorye. 1509 S. Hawes xxxviii. sig. R.iii She called to her peace and dame mercy..Pleasaunce grace with good dame memory To weyte upon her. 1618 Bp. J. Hall 95 Memory the great keeper or Master of the rolles of the soule. 1751 T. Gray x. 7 If Memory to these no Trophies raise. 1797 C. Smith II. 76 O'er what, my angel friend, thou wert, Dejected Memory loves to mourn. 1831 W. Wordsworth xviii Memory, like sleep, hath powers which dreams obey..; How little that she cherishes is lost! 1950 G. Barker ii. 10 Memory flirts with seven veils. 1991 A. C. Rich ii. 44 Memory says: Want to do right? Don't count on me. 1869 G. H. Napheys (1878) iv. 322 Chromatic memory, or the memory of colors. 1883 F. Galton 106 One favourite expedient was to associate the sight memory with the muscular memory. 1897 tr. T. A. Ribot 153 Others..recall the circumstances plus the revived condition of feeling. It is these who have the true ‘affective memory’. 1961 F. H. George viii. 280 The hippocampus and hippocampal gyrus are therefore important features in recent memory. 1967 M. B. Arnold in M. H. Appley & R. Trumbull 139 How intensely we experience stress may depend on the strength of this affective memory. 1994 June 35/3 Declarative memory involves explicit, consciously accessible information. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > [noun] > capacity for manifesting previous state 1887 16 523 No matter how treated, a piece of soft iron has a ‘magnetic memory’. 1935 A. 149 72 The [magnetic] field..is to be regarded as ‘frozen in’ and represents a permanent memory of the field which existed when the metal was last cooled below the transition temperature. 1949 i. 5 In the usual form of the theory of viscosity it is assumed that the rate of deformation is so slow compared with the relaxation process, that only slight deviations from the equilibrium state will be found... When the relaxation-time is large and the rate of deformation high..the deviation from the equilibrium state will then show traces of a more distant past. Here we see manifested a kind of ‘memory’ on the part of the flowing medium. 1950 78 341/2 (heading) Memory in simple ferromagnetic domain crystal. 1964 J. M. Blatt ix. 332 Since the supercurrent acts in such a direction as to make the total flux approach more closely to an integral number of flux quanta, this initial value of m0 remains unchanged..and preserves a ‘memory’ for the initial, external flux. 1971 30/2 Titomagnetite retains a memory of its original magnetization after oxidation. 1990 2 846/1 Does the pituitary gland have a ‘memory’ for immediately prior secretory bursts? the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [noun] > capacity for reversal the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [noun] > capacity to return to past state 1956 50 4577 The conversion of a naturally occurring twinned quartz crystal to single crystals by torsion often results in the formation of an unstable state, and the crystal reverts to its original twinned state. Natural crystals exhibiting ‘memory’ usually contain large amounts of impurities. 1961 12 Aug. 1261/2 [This] could have accounted for that part of the diameter increases observed when the polymer solution flowed out of a capillary, which could not be attributed to memory of the convergent flow at the entrance to the capillary. (This memory could not account for all the diameter increase because as the length of the capillary was increased, the diameter increase decreased, but did not tend to zero.) 1964 A. S. Lodge x. 236 ‘Bouncing putty’..may be said to have a ‘memory’ of a few seconds in the sense that if a sample is first rapidly elongated and then held at constant length for a few seconds, no recovery occurs on release; whereas, on immediate release following the initial elongation, appreciable recovery (i.e. decrease in length..) occurs. 1976 3 July 12/3 Urethane has ‘memory’ because it is resilient and absorbs bumps like a good tire. 1987 July 19/1 Cables with PVC jackets develop a ‘memory’, according to how they've been stored in the past. 7. the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. 1421 (MED) In his memoire The man which lith in purgatoire Desireth..To wite what him schal betide. c1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer 14 This olde storie..That elde..Hath nygh devoured out of oure memorie. 1484 W. Caxton tr. ii. ix Good children ought..to..put in theyr hert & memory the doctryne..of theyr parentes. 1504 in B. Cusack (1998) 327 I William Cupuldyke of haryngtonn hawyng my hole mynde & gud memore makys my testament & last Wille in this maner and forme folyng. 1597 T. Morley 5 I should haue a verie good wit, for I haue but a bad memorie. 1624 T. Heywood iii. 125 For this appear'd the blazing Star Yet fresh in our memory. 1692 R. L'Estrange cccliii. 323 Wherefore Parasites and Lyers had need of Good Memories. 1705 J. Addison Pref. sig. A4 I took care to refresh my Memory among the Classic Authors. 1788 A. Hamilton xxii. 140 The earl of Chesterfield (if my memory serves me right)..intimates that his success in an important negotiation, must depend on [etc.]. 1827 B. Disraeli IV. vi. iii. 84 A good memory is often as ready a friend as a sharp wit. 1852 H. B. Stowe II. xx. 50 Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory. 1903 ‘O. Henry’ in Apr. 128/2 ‘I've seen that fellow somewhere,’ said Littlefield, who had a memory for faces. 1933 H. Allen I. ii. ix. 113 The illiterate memory of the country-side was encouraged to forget that the..boy..had ever had a brother. 1951 R. Harling (1952) 189 Perhaps you did not know, or it has slipped your memory. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart (1975) xii. 219 College porters..are the men with the best memories in Oxford. society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > memory 1945 J. P. Eckert et al. (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) iii. 1 The memory elements of the machine may be divided into two groups—the ‘internal memory’ and the ‘external memory’. 1946 15 Feb. 16/4 Numerical values covering a wide range of scientific ‘constants’ are interjected as and when they are needed. There are four kinds of ‘memory’ in the Eniac to accomplish this. 1948 3 123 The instructions governing the routine operations that the machine is to perform can be stored in the memory in exactly the same manner in which the numbers on which the machine is to operate are stored. 1957 D. D. McCracken xvii. 200 The table look-up feature allows us to store two tables in memory. 1967 23 Jan. 11/1 (advt.) Sigma 5's central processor..works even more efficiently with $500,000 worth of memory, peripherals and options than it does in its basic $90,000 configuration. 1984 July 297/3 23 per cent had bought extra memory for their computers. 1998 Nov. 68/2 The 8110i needs to keep a good deal of its memory free for Smart Messages. III. Something that perpetuates remembrance or stimulates the memory. society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 216 (MED) Hiȝe prowes, whiche clerkis in memorie Han trewly set..And enlumyned with many corious flour Of rethorik. 1427 in H. Nicolas (1834) III. 240 (MED) Þees wordes..my..lord..commaunded forthwith shulde be enacted in memoire in tyme to come þat he wolde nevre varie fro hem. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 269 (MED) Cambises..vnder whom the memory of that woman Iudith happede. a1540 R. Barnes (1573) 183 Wee doe not read in any memoryes, that our fathers haue left vs, that [etc.]. 1543 ( (1812) 194 (MED) The kyng came home with honour and victorye As Flores saieth right in his memorye. 1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater i. xv. 69 Immediatly after this Hystorie, he putteth an other more worthie memorie than the formost. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta v. xii. 359 There are certaine memories and discourses which say, that in this Temple the Divell did speake visibly. 1673 J. Ray 6 There is no memory that these places were part of the Continent. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei 57 There is no Memory of any other [Amphitheatre] to be found on Medals. 9. the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > keepsake, souvenir ?c1425 in R. H. Robbins (1952) 93 (MED) Wyche ys to yow a uery memery, and vn-to al othyr lorddys how they schale hem gy. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) i. 4922 (MED) Mellager..for a memorie..Gaff hir the hed in tokne off this victorie. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine 231/1 They fond hys rynge and one gloue whiche they brought agayn and that other the Sextayn reteyned for a wytnes and memorie. a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 84 Memore of sore, stern in aurore, Lovit with angellis stevyne. 1543 ( (1812) cxxi. 235 The abbay of Batayle... He called it so then for a memorye Of his batayle. 1547 xxviii. c ij b That they shall take awaie..all shrines [etc.],..so that there remain no memory of the same, in walles, glasses, windowes, or els where. 1549 (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxviiiv And did institute, and in his holy Gospell commaund vs, to celebrate a perpetuall memory of that his precious death. 1575 in W. H. Turner (1880) 367 To remaine as a perpetuall memory and record of such orders. 1608 W. Shakespeare xxi. 7 These weeds are memories of those Worser howers. View more context for this quotation 1624 W. Bedell xi. 150 It is a memorie and representation of the true Sacrifice..made on the Altar of the Crosse. 1972 T. F. Nemec 212 Southern Avalon informants occasionally employ ‘memory’ to mean an embroidered wall-hanging upon which is inscribed the vital statistics of deceased kin. the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > shrine > [noun] c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 49 Men bigging þe memoryes of martres. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Royal) v. 1047 Off Saynt Petyr than made he A memore. 1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in 797 Miracles worked at their chappelles or memorie. ?a1600 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Cambr.) l. 1170 in C. Horstmann (1882) II. 260 One altere put ine-to þat place Inne Eccuba as memore was. a1638 J. Mede (1641) 120 Those who approached the shrines of Martyrs, and prayed at their memories, and sepulchers. a1684 J. Evelyn anno 1656 (1955) III. 177 K. Coilus..of whom I find no memory, save at the pinacle of one of their Wool-staple houses..a statue of wood. 1691 A. Wood I. 541 Jackson..was buried in the Inner Chappel..but hath no memory at all over his grave. Phrases P1. the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > commemorate [verb (intransitive)] a1325 (?c1300) (Cambr. Gg.1.1) 228 (MED) Þe bodi..sschal..make you clene..So ofte so ye sschol me take, Memorie of me to make. c1390 G. Chaucer 3164 Tragedie is to seyn a certeyn storie, As olde bokes maken vs memorie, Of hym that..is yfallen out of heigh degree. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 10309 (MED) For euery messe makeþ memorye Of soules þat are yn purgatorye. a1456 (c1425) J. Lydgate (1934) ii. 651 (MED) Noble Prynce which..Excelle alle oþer as maked is memorye. c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 31 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 459 Of wthyre Iulyanis sere mencione I sal mak ȝou here, & als sume memor sal I ma of Iulyane apostata. c1500 (?a1475) (1896) 1515 On tho walles was made memory Singlerly of euery creature That there had byn. 1590 E. Spenser iii. ii. sig. Cc6v To whom no share in armes and cheualree, They doe impart, ne maken memoree Of their braue gestes. 1646 H. Hammond 85 There is no memory made how the sentence was received. 1876 A. C. Swinburne 35 Of this hoary-headed woe Song made memory long ago. the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > in memory of [phrase] c1385 G. Chaucer 1906 In memorie Of Mars he maked hath right swich another [altar]. c1390 (Vernon) (1930) 436 (MED) Al þis is writen withouten lyȝe, At Roome to ben in memorie At Seint Petres Chirche. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) iii. 5616 (MED) Þei made..a litel oratorie Perpetuelly to be in memorie, Where was set a..receptacle. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 1118 In mynde & in memory of him to make a cite. c1480 (a1400) St. Luke 31 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 247 In lofe & memore of þare name. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxvi. 9 In memore of his passion. 1509 S. Hawes (1845) xlv. 220 Makyng great bokes to be in memory. 1558 Bp. T. Watson xiii. f. lxxvi As the Jewes dyd fyrst couer Chrystes face..so hath the Priest in memorye of that, an Amise put vpon his head. 1640 Bp. J. Hall i. 127 A yearely fast, called Arzibur, in the sad memory of the dogge of Sergius. 1653 tr. F. Carmeni 154 A Livery which they wore to the memory of the deceased King. 1677 R. Plot vii. 201 A festival celebrated in memory of the great slaughter of the Danes. 1712 T. Hearne (1889) III. 351 The Colum erected in Memory of the Dreadfull Fire of London. 1769 O. Goldsmith II. 490 He removed, for change of air, to Helenopolis, a city which he had built to the memory of his mother. 1781 J. Morison in xxxv. vi Through latest ages let it pour In mem'ry of my dying hour. 1838 W. Howitt II. iii. xv. 351 The mural tablets to the memory of departed rectors. 1874 T. Hardy II. xviii. 218 No—I'll not burn it—I'll keep it in memory of her, poor thing! 1942 E. Langley xi. 163 Often we talked of Peppino, and in memory of him sang his songs ‘O Sole Mio’ and the dramatic ‘Gigolette’. 1971 B. S. Metzker & D. S. Levy tr. I. Metzker I. 100 Jews fast in memory of Nebuchadnezzar's siege and destruction of Jerusalem. 1992 Summer 8/2 Tennyson Down..was given to the Trust in 1927 by the 2nd Lord Tennyson in memory of his father who walked there when living at Farringford nearby. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [adjective] > continuing in people's memory 1389 in C. Innes (1837) 449 Of gude memore Dauid kyng qwhilom of Scotland. c1400 (?a1300) (Laud) (1952) 4781 (MED) Denys, þat was of gode memorie, Jt sheweþ al in his book of storie. 1430–1 IV. 371/2 Ye Tretee of ye Pees, made nought longe agoo bytwyx ye Kyngs of noble memoire. 1459 in E. W. W. Veale (1938) 57 (MED) To the most noble Prince of blessed memoyre, the Kyng his Fadur. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 149 Seynte Gregory..callethe Constantyne a man of goode memory. 1509 J. Fisher (de Worde) sig. Aii A comynycacyon betwyxt the woman of blessyd memory called Martha and our sauyour Ihesu. 1563 L. Humphrey ii. sig. q.iv Whyche well I wotte, the Noblest Prince Edward, of happy memorye, moste lyberally did, bothe in London, and eyther vnyuersitie. 1565 in J. H. Burton (1877) 1st Ser. I. 332 Hir majesteis fadir the Kingis grace of maist wortie memorie. 1605 W. Camden i. 3 Our late Soveraigne, of most deare, sacred and ever-glorious memorie Qveene Elizabeth. 1660 Ld. Brudnell in (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 313 When his late Majesty of glorious memory was intended to go against the Scots. 1738 J. Swift p. iv His late Majesty King William the Third, of ever glorious and immortal Memory. 1762 R. Forbes (1886) 176 The widow of Sutherland of Bogsie, of facetious memory. 1796 tr. in J. Brewster xix. 109 The ordination of the Chapel of Stockton by Richard, of happy memory, Bishop of Durham. 1809 W. Irving I. i. ii. 12 The great atomic system taught by old Moschus..revived by Democritus of laughing memory. 1894 20 Apr. 4/7 The ‘planter’, as he is called, a name of historical memory in Ireland. 1947 C. R. Prance 3 The troop had only one officer as yet, a bright young scallywag from the old C.M.R. of gallant memory. 1994 J. Barth 272 The exposed low ceiling joists before the bandstand in the old Betterton Casino of happy memory. P3. the world > health and disease > mental health > [adverb] 1402 Will in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt (1931) 211 (MED) I John Girdeler of Harfeld, in god mynde and saf memorye, make my testement. 1483 c. 7 §3 Persons..within Age..or not of whole Memory at the Time of such Fine levied. 1642 tr. J. Perkins i. §22. 10 If a man being of good memorie make a Charter of Feofment. 1677 J. Pearson (1844) I. p. cxxx I, John Pearson..being infirme, but in perfect memory. 1700 Will in (1923) 3 246 I Wm. Byrd of the parish of Westopher..being in perfect Health & sound memory..do make ordain Constitute & appoint [etc.]. 1766 W. Blackstone II. 291 Idiots and persons of nonsane memory. 1820 J. Gifford (ed. 5) 672 I, John Mills,..linen-draper, being of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding. 1826 W. Roberts (ed. 3) I. 32 No person who is not of a reasonable mind and sane memory can make any disposition by will. 1884 1 Mar. 322/2 That a man should allege..he was not of sane memory in blemishment of himself. 1998 (ed. 5) XLII. 54 It is necessary for the validity of a will that the testator should be of ‘sound mind, memory and understanding’. the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [verb (intransitive)] > recover one's normal consciousness a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich xlix. 267 (MED) Whanne they were comen to memorie Ageyn. 1532 Romaunt Rose in f. cxlv/1 Soone after al thy payne To memorye shalte thou come agayne. 1753 S. Richardson V. xxviii. 174 I have endeavoured to account for the noble behaviour of your sister; and am the less surprised at it, now she is come to her memory. P4. time of memory n.1540 J. Palsgrave in tr. G. Gnapheus Ep. Ded. sig. b Laurence Ualla..by whose fyrste exhortation and settynge on, so many excellent wryters haue rysen amongeste the Italians within the tyme of memory. 1582 in R. Hakluyt (1599) II. i. 165 In time of Memory things haue bene brought in that were not here before, as..the Turky cocks and hennes about fifty yeres past. 1695 Marquis of Halifax 23 The Publick-spirited Choler hath been thrown off within time of Memory. c1726 R. North in J. Wilson (1959) xiii. 286 In the north..the Quires in time of memory have had wind musick, to supply the want of voices. 1800 L. D. Campbell in H. Boyd II. Pref. 47 The Cingales appear..to have been, beyond time of memory, a race of Hindûs instructed in all the arts of civil life. 1857 W. Meade II. lv. 84 Both [churches] were standing and in tolerably good keeping within time of memory. 1922 W. H. Blake i. 30 Lac à Gravel takes name from the Indian who found the lake, or harboured there before time of memory. 1991 C. C. Weston in xiii. 379 The events at Runnymede were comfortably within time of memory. 1642 tr. J. Perkins ii. §120. 54 If a Deed bear date before time of memory it is not pleadable. 1766 W. Blackstone II. 31 Time of memory hath been long ago ascertained by the law to commence from the reign of Richard the first. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton at Memory By Statute Westminster the First, 3 Edw. I., a.d. 1276, the time of memory was limited to the reign of Richard 1st, July 6th, 1189. 1882 C. Sweet 525 When a person alleges in legal proceedings, that a custom or prescription has existed from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary..this is..called time of living memory, as opposed to time of legal memory, which runs from the commencement of the reign of Richard I. a1944 W. Holdsworth in (1952) 57 322 As a legal historian, English law from before the time of legal memory has never known his like. 1995 22 Apr. 207/2 Where..the actual origin of the enjoyment was shown to have been of more recent date than the time of legal memory the right [misprinted fight] was held to be defeated. the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] c1545 R. Copland tr. P. Tommai (title) The Art of Memory, that otherwyse is called the Phenix. 1594 T. Nashe sig. L3v It is not possible for anie man to learne the Arte of Memorie,..except he haue a naturall memorie before. 1605 F. Bacon ii. sig. Pp2v This Art of Memorie, is but built vpon two Intentions: the one Prænotion; the other Embleme. View more context for this quotation 1647 A. Cowley 26 So that thy parts become to mee A kind of Art of Memory. 1653 R. Saunders (title) Physiognomie..Whereunto is added the Art of Memorie. 1674 C. Cotton (1680) 99 This Art of Memory is a sport at which men may play for money. 1812 tr. G. von Feinaigle (title) The new Art of Memory. 1846 J. E. Worcester Mnemotechny.., the art of memory, or an artificial method of improving the memory. 1849 H. D. Thoreau 113 His natural memory was very great, to which he added the art of memory. He would repeat to you forwards and backwards all the signs from Ludgate to Charing Cross. 1993 Summer 10/2 She talks about mnemonics..and relates the art of memory to principles of architecture and thought revealed in Shakespeare's Globe. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others 1674 C. Cotton xviii. 141 This Art of Memory is a Sport at which men may play for Money, but it is most commonly the way to play the Drunkard. 1776 J. Strutt III. 149 Then follows the games at cards; of picket, of gleek, l'ombre, cribbidge,..the art of memory,..beast. 1552 R. Huloet Vse by prescripcyon, or tyme out of memory of man, Vsucapio. 1611 W. Vaughan vii. ix. 327 Time out of memorie they claime prescription of swinish shapes. 1698 W. Molyneux 123 [He] pleaded, That the Land of Ireland, time out of Memory, hath been a Land separated and distinct from the Land of England. 1793 D. Ure 93 It has been a custom, time out of memory, for the riders of the marches to deck their hats, drum, &c. with book; and to combat with one another at the newly erected stone. 1868 F. Jordan tr. M. Ring vii. 50/1 The priesthood, from time out of memory, has striven to make men believe that it was the Church. 1951 D. Mathew 311 There were..the old straightforward moneylenders of King James' time to whom the Crown had time out of memory been so indebted. 2005 T. D. Walker ii. 80 From time out of memory, such had been the done thing to address sickness. Compounds C1. a. General attributive (chiefly in sense 6). 1912 9 515 At least a week intervened between one judgment and the next. There was no clear evidence of decided memory effect except [etc.]. 1949 44 481 Any systematic variation with age at interview could..be interpreted as reflecting either memory effects or time trends. 1957 27 93/2 ‘Memory’ effects..can occur particularly in nucleation processes involving condensed phases. 1972 Nov. 40/2 Hysteresis arises because of memory effects in the magnetic materials surrounding the coil. 1982 viii. 364 Another item worth mentioning here is the memory effect of nicads. 1894 J. E. Creighton & E. B. Titchener tr. W. M. Wundt xix. 282 Memory-ideas [Ger. Erinnerungsvorstellungen] are aroused by sense-perceptions, and again interrupted by new impressions. the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > image held in memory > [noun] the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] > image in memory 1882 tr. W. Preyer in 7 423 When now this representation has often arisen, the single perceptions necessary to its formation become associated more and more closely. If then one of the latter appears, the memory-images [Ger. Erinnerungsbilder] of the others arises through [etc.]. 1964 M. Critchley viii. 52 Orton believed that during the normal processes of early visual education, storage of memory-images of letters and words takes place in both hemispheres. 1982 P. C. Birkinshaw (Univ. Cape Town) Oct. 48 The memory-images of things/ideas and the word-images that have become linked to them by association, reciprocally stimulate each other as we speak and listen. 1894 3 623 The perception-judgment corresponds to the present point, memory-judgments of greater or less certainty to the different past points in the subjective time continuum. 1937 46 211 The only natural interpretation is to take it as questioning not the accuracy of memory-judgments but the worth of clear and distinct perception itself. 1917 J. B. Baillie in 26 249 (title) On the nature of memory-knowledge. 1921 B. Russell ix. 157 I shall attempt the analysis of memory-knowledge..because memory, in some form, is presupposed in almost all other knowledge. 1991 100 14 If Divid has, in his left stream, introspective knowledge about that stream, then he also has, in his left stream, memory knowledge about that stream. the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] > act of forgetting 1893 2 354 Memory lapses, or the momentary fluctuation of ideas in and out of consciousness. 1968 43 186 Modern novelists have committed grosser memory lapses in the 20th-century counterpart of cyclical romances. 1992 3 Oct. 19/1 This [sc. high-pressure nervous syndrome] causes intense trembling and memory lapses. 1938 R. Graves 163 Where port in Limerick glasses Glows twice as red reflected In the memory-mirror of the waxed table. 1939 S. Sassoon 20 Reflective stands My memory-mirror in the autumn dusk. 1860 Jan. 28 (heading) Memory pictures. 1862 June 678/2 What piquant anecdotes she could favor us with, would she but draw some memory-pictures for us! 1991 D. Lodge i. ii. 25 There came unbidden into his mind a memory-picture of Daphne. 1896 3 265 We doubt whether any method which submits the eye and the ear to a test upon the peculiarities of the memory processes can hope to avoid the difficulty. 1980 16 Feb. 335/2 Pharmacological data showing that cholinergic neurons are involved in memory processes. 1894 Aug. 698/2 One wall of the studio was to be kept clear, and every scholar was to make her daily memory sketch and pin it thereon. 1925 R. Fry 7 Sept. (1972) II. 581 I managed to do one picture... This is a memory sketch of the composition. 1845 E. Cook 2nd Ser. 167 None that deck thy memory stone. 1884 15 Nov. 130/1 Others, whose brains have become more or less addled under the pressure of ‘memory work’. 1939 F. J. Brown 456 It has..encouraged or even compelled him to do ‘memory work’. b. (In sense 7b.) 1961 79 464/1 The equipment contains 10,000 diodes, 1,500 transistors, 3,500 resistors, 670 capacitors and a memory disc. 1991 13 Feb. b9/3 These CD-ROM's, as they are known, have much greater capacity than older style memory disks. 1945 J. P. Eckert et al. (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) iii. 1 The memory elements of the machine may be divided into two groups—the ‘internal memory’ and the ‘external memory’. 1994 Mar. 40/1 If a memory element switches from ‘0’ to ‘1’, the mirror above it will also instantly flip positions. 1948 3 48 Problems whose solution is desired to greater accuracy than corresponds to the fixed number of digits permitted in a single memory location of the machine. 1991 Aug. 52/1 Burst Bus is claimed to enhance performance and cut DRAM access time by allowing the reading of consecutive memory locations into internal caches. 1958 30 May 1271/2 The reader should trace out what happens to the net when a fires alone, and when a and b fire together... The loop will be seen to be the memory store. 1964 C. Dent iii. 19 For the computer's main memory store, magnetic core storage is now frequently used. 1986 28 Feb. 941/2 Simple memory organization schemes and search algorithms may prove inadequate for such large memory stores. 1947 D. R. Hartree 12 The components carrying out these functions may not all be physically distinct; for example a single unit may act both as an adding unit and a memory unit. 1959 16 Oct. 957/1 Although tables of probabilities..containing over 300 items were used in the present study, they did not exhaust the capacity of the computer's memory unit. 1990 2 Oct. c1/4 The memory unit in a critical control system began spitting out garbled data. c. Objective and similative (chiefly poetic). 1925 E. Blunden 28 And to my spirit memory-bowed The world with all its wars and wails Seems turning slow. 1845 L. J. Peirson 135 The..heart..Which lives..Within a cold and memory-haunted breast. 1983 6 Jan. 27/3 The score, plangent and memory-haunted.., is beautifully persuasive. 1836 C. G. F. Gore II. ix. 139 Faded garlands, fragments of broken glasses, the smell of lamp-oil, the memory-haunting grunt of the violoncello. 1899 E. J. Chapman 14 Many a memory-haunting face. 1931 (U.S. ed.) Dec. 132/2 (advt.) Heart-stirring, memory-haunting Coty odeurs are what every woman secretly hopes for. 1979 (Nexis) 3 Aug. d5 State your name, plus memory-jogging statement, such as ‘Carter, like the president.’ 1986 15 May 4/4 Manuals are given to improve punctuation and spelling, with memory-jogging layout and display guides. 1933 W. de la Mare 72 Those eyes that, memory-lit, Now ponder on my own. 1923 E. Blunden 37 I'm not rejected then, my mind's delight Was not a play of memory-masking fancy. 1908 T. Hardy v. v. 212 Amid no memory-moving urgencies. 1938 W. de la Mare 3 Still memory-sweet its old decoy. C2. the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > memory 1952 21 June 386/3 The machine has a memory bank, consisting of 40 cathode ray tubes. 1955 Jan. 56 The memory banks of the computers would still contain all data pertaining to the course set for the EDS. 1970 E. Tidyman (1971) i. 16 Every face that passed him on the street became a deposit of his memory bank. 1983 28 July 26/1 Feed them into a computer whose memory-bank was stocked with every play ever written about the ‘Irish problem’ and what would come out might very well be Indian Summer. 1994 Oct. 49/2 The cultural current that looks to loot the baby-boomer memory banks for recyclable cinematic ideas. the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun] > in memories the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection > instance of > faith in 1921 B. Russell ix. 159 Everything constituting a memory-belief is happening now. 1921 B. Russell ix. 159 It is not logically necessary to the existence of a memory-belief that the event remembered should have occurred. 1925 C. D. Broad v. 233 Memory-beliefs..are not reached by inference. 1948 57 17 According to this theory a memory-belief has an ‘intrinsic’ probability; it carries its evidence, as it were, on its face. society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry > expansion board society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > other types of journal the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] > memory aid > prompting board 1955 62 622 The need for instant memorization arises when the classroom teacher states only once an expression written on the blackboard (memory board). 1974 13 Dec. 1407/2 The tales vary from the complex and flowery to summaries so sparse they look like jottings on some medieval comic's memory-board. 1979 Nov. 3 (advt.) Just add S100 Memory Boards—S100 disk controller boards—[etc.]. 1992 May 38/1 The performance is a bit sluggish, but would be improved if he could get his hands on a four-megabyte memory board. 1868 (Electronic text) 30 May His order, intelligence, manly virtues,..[etc.], have..written his memory upon the pages of our memory book in lines ineffaceable. 1875 L. Larcom x. 129 Others paste The window-sills with poem, story, sketch... I have a memory-book well filled so. 1931 14 Feb. 843/1 Another demand..is that for inexpensive memory books used by grammar school children. 1968 6 Mar. 342/3 She'd know deep down that she could never face them again until she could trot that damned Cirque out of her memory book. 1991 May 64/1 When I see the dried corsage in my teenage memory book, I remember how very special I felt that night. society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > primary storage or main memory > function for altering contents > cache 1989 Oct. 88/2 The memory cache is a relatively low 32K, which could create a slight bottleneck with large-memory applications in a multitasking environment. 1994 Jan. 7/2 Such memory caches are a way to deliver memory speed while keeping costs down. 1989 (U.K. ed.) May 9 (advt.) As well as their new slimline casing, they also include advanced features like VGA graphics and disk and memory caching. 1994 Jan. 7/2 Memory caching puts more data in memory, so it's poised to be fed to the computer's processor. 1959 23 85 Respondents were stimulated by memory cards. These cards contained a standardized number of media in four categories. 1968 Oct. 2/1 This information storage..is acomplished by the writing (magnetization or demagnetization) of permanent magnets located on memory cards, 128 of which are contained in each memory module. 1980 Sept. 93/1 Giant multinationals..are promoting ‘carte a memoire’ (memory card) systems. 1984 Jan. 35/2 It [sc. the smart card] incorporates a microchip, which contains both memory and microprocessing capacity (hence its alternative names: the ‘chip card’ and the ‘memory card’). 1990 Nov. 652/1 Memory cards are often much quicker than floppy disc drives when it comes to storing data. 1991 Feb. 292/2 Our popular memory card comes populated with 2Mb of RAM and LIM 4.0 Expanded memory software. society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > primary storage or main memory > areas or blocks the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > types of the world > life > biology > substance > cell > types of cells > [noun] > phagocytic cells > leucocyte or lymphocyte 1892 C. C. Van Liew & O. Beyer tr. T. Ziehen 156 These numerous sensory cells transmit their excitation further to one other ganglion-cell, a memory-cell. 1922 31 112 The failure to find a memory-cell. 1949 3 346 The first block of orders are read from tape 1 into the I tank and thence to memory cells 0000 to 0060. 1982 Feb. 59/2 Each memory cell of the chip can be addressed independently. 1985 C. R. Leeson et al. (ed. 5) v. 157/1 Memory cells may live for years without growing or dividing. society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > primary storage or main memory 1969 4 295/1 Address selection of present semiconductor memory chips is based on using the 2n combinations of n binary address bits. 1979 2 Apr. 38/3 In 1978 IBM unveiled a semiconductor memory chip containing 64,000 transistors. 1987 No. 18. 9/2 It may even be possible one day for the whole New OED to be engraved on a single memory chip inside a computer. 1995 14 Nov. 18/6 Photography's future may well lie with filmless digital cameras which record still video images on to a memory chip. society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > memory > defined by speed of access > time taken 1948 3 288 Since there are 32 words stored in each line, a complete memory cycle has a duration of 360 microseconds. 1964 115 655 Most of the linc's instructions require from one to four memory-cycle times of eight microseconds each for execution. 1980 C. S. French xxix. 244 The hardware continues automatically to steal memory cycles..until the counter indicates that the transfer of all characters is complete. 1914 21 51 (heading) Note on a memory device for hyperbolic functions. 1929 4 397 It would seem to me more logical to assume that Guido..used Paul's hymn as a memory device, and in so doing, changed Do to Ut. 1946 2 100 The basic electronic memory device of the ENIAC is the flip-flop or trigger. 1959 9 Oct. 7/4 On a memory device within the machine are stored details of the votes going to each candidate in each constituency in 1955. 1998 P. Ceruzzi i. 38 After the War, the drum emerged as a reliable, rugged, inexpensive, but slow memory device. the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] > memory aid the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > drug to help memory 1965 M. Spark v. 129 Are these the memory drugs? 1996 B. Sterling 8 ‘Do you ever do mnemonics, Mia?’ ‘Yes. I've done memory drugs.’ society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > magnetic > drum the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > [noun] > device displaying material 1933 4 442/2 The memory drum of the psychologist which revolves before a slot, exposing phrases and words in their proper order. 1953 C. E. Osgood iii. xii. 502 Lists of 12 nonsense syllables..are learned in constant order on a memory drum. 1959 66 844 (advt.) Other projects involve a new ferrite core..and a one-million bit magnetic memory drum weighing only five pounds. 1964 C. Dent iii. 22 The memory drum of a Pegasus computer. 1971 85 137 Whether the results would be similar to those found with the use of the more..traditional memory drum. 1966 3 The shell..is preferably padded with a low-memory foam material.] 1977 6 Polyvinyl chloride foam having a uniform thickness of 1/4 inch and density of about 8 to 9 lbs./ft.3, such as polyvinyl chloride memory foam. 1987 (Nexis) 18 Dec. All its shoes contain..a ‘memory foam that takes the shape of your foot and retains it’. 2006 (Midwest ed.) 16 July iv. 3/5 Can electric mattress pads be used with memory foam mattresses or pads, or does the memory foam react to the heat? 1987 23 viii. 4 Since reasonable response time is measured in hundredths of seconds, it is in an application's best interests to have a small memory footprint so that swapping time does not reduce its responsiveness. 1988 10 Oct. 5/1 Since it has a zero-memory footprint, it allows you to debug programs that couldn't be debugged before. 1997 2 Dec. 373/1 In this column, we'll discuss some techniques for optimizing a Windows CE program to reduce its memory footprint. 2015 P. J. Jones viii. 182 The memory footprint of a Ruby process will appear to grow and shrink over time. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ i. 40 When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. 1956 50 331 This precept is..the most difficult to abridge, to ‘correct’ later, and even if next week it is suppressed it cannot easily be evaporated in a ‘memory hole’. 1989 Aug. 16/4 I suspect that all the difficult material has simply disappeared into a ‘memory hole’. the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [adverb] > in a reminiscent manner 1903 R. H. Elkin (song) 2 Come let us wander..Among the haunts of Memory Lane, Where ev'ry bud of days gone by Has blossomed into joy or pain. 1924 B. G. De Sylva (song) 3 I am with you Wandering through Memory Lane; Living the years, Laughter and tears, over again. 1946 W. M. Rogers (title) Down memory lane. 1958 5 June 16/6 Liberty Hall, an unhappily managed trip down memory lane. 1967 A. Wilson iv. 422 You were all down Memory Lane, no doubt, judging by the laughter. 1979 52 145 Abe..treks back along a shadowy, blurred memory lane, picking up deformed, fuzzy fragments on the way. 1984 25 Aug. 1/2 There were rousing rhetorical flourishes and tear-jerking journeys down memory lane. the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] > expert 1815 T. Moore 35 Nothing can surpass the plan Of that Professor—(trying to recollect) psha!—that Memory-man. 1969 26 Jan. 28/7 Eventually he became a mnemonist or professional ‘memory man’. 1975 13 Mar. 326/3 Note-taking was..forbidden in the Public Galleries, so there developed a special breed of memory-men who could listen to a speech..and transcribe it virtually word for word, from memory. 1989 K. Ishiguro (BNC) To..put to him random questions of the order of, say, who had won the Derby in such and such a year, rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall. 1966 C. J. Sippl 190/2 The memory map is a listing of all variables, constants, and statement identifiers in a FORTRAN program and the storage location assigned to each. 1985 Feb. 211/1 The QL has a much more complicated memory map than, for example, the Spectrum. 1993 P. Ouellette xvi. 219 Most things in a memory map tend to have a single address or a brief series of addresses, as do people in the phone book. 1976 7 Sept. 20/1 In some applications..it may be necessary to transfer data in parallel format... This can be designed into the system by utilising the technique of memory mapped I/O. 1988 (Texas Instrum. Ltd.) June 16/4 (advt.) Memory-mapped Inputs/outputs..shouldn't be a secret any longer for readers. 1970 25 540/1 Among the features..are a FORTRAN IV language with..a drum/disc memory mapping system for both control and non-control programming. 1993 294/1 Memory-mapping is an operating system supported facility..Memory mapping allows a segment of non-volatile memory to be mapped into a process address space. 1982 (B.B.C.) 5 Aug. SU/7096/D/1 Sleeving made of ‘memory metal’..shrinks to a predetermined form at room temperature to form a hermetic seal. 1984 Feb. 26 Other developments being explored include the use of memory metal in cats' eyes to warn of freezing road surfaces. 1997 (Nexis) 10 Dec. 22 a He opened one of two dime-size umbrellas made of memory metal and pulled it against the far side of the septum. the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] > expert > fraudulent 1642 T. Fuller iii. x. 174 The artificiall rules which..are delivered by Memory-mountebanks. 1631 W. Watts tr. St. Augustine x. viii. 590 I come to these fields and spacious palaces of my Memory [L. campos et lata praetoria memoriae].] 1984 J. D. Spence (title) The memory palace of Matteo Ricci. 1984 (Nexis) 21 Nov. c18 [Matteo Ricci] showed the Chinese how to construct a ‘memory palace’—an imaginary palace in which they were to picture successive rooms and apartments housing images that represented different types of knowledge. 1986 (Nexis) 16 Nov. ii. 33 There are..11 tall dioramas, designed like pop-up cartoons and called ‘memory palaces’, each of which illustrates one of Mr. Moore's design principles. 1992 (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Living section) 25 The Opera House is the kind of memory palace that gives a town its selfhood. It has..become an architectural scrapbook of local history. 1993 (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Life Suppl.) 4 Maxis's idea was to develop a programme that used virtual space to bring different sources of information together into manageable forms. Fans of William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel Neuromancer might see The Metaphor Mixer as a rudimentary version of his ‘cyberspace’... Others might see a modern version of the ‘memory palaces’ constructed by medieval thinkers. 1997 (Nexis) 6 Apr. vii. 26 Mr. Nooteboom..appears in these essays as a dreamer for whom every monument, every work of art transforms itself into a memory palace that unlocks Spain's history. 1892 C. F. Millspaugh 167-2 The corms..have a severely acrid juice, imparting an almost caustic sensation to the mucus membranes..when chewed. This action upon the mouths of school-boys, who often..play the trick of inviting bites of the corm upon each other, gave rise to the common name, ‘memory root’, as they never forget its effects. 1971 A. Krochmal et al. 62 Arisaema triphyllum..memory root, pepper turnip. 1975 26 June b3 A third name for the plant [sc. jack-in-the-pulpit] is ‘memory Root’ [sic] because, once tasted raw, it cannot ever be forgotten. the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] > act of recalling to mind > capacity for recall 1897 9 567 A method free from most of these defects was found in testing the memory span with numerals read..in time with a pendulum. 1912 9 291 These tests were designed to measure any improvement or increase..in the power of immediate recall (immediate visual memory span). 1930 R. S. Woodworth (ed. 8) iii. 76 If the list of numbers to be memorized exceeds the memory span, several readings are necessary before it can be recited. 1969 C. N. Coffer in G. A. Talland & N. C. Waugh 219 I would anticipate that the first locus of pathology would lie in the memory span, that is, the size of the core of actually retained list members. 1997 17 July 30/5 The new card, called a ‘memory stick’ because of its long, thin shape, will be adopted by Sony, Casio, Fujitsu, Olympus, Sanyo and Sharp. 2006 Feb. 74/2 The forensic lab returned some of his belongings, including the memory stick with the PhD he had been assessing. 2010 S. Hodge vi. 81 Backing all this up on a memory stick is sensible and means you can choose whether to work on these at school or at home. 1966 F. A. Yates v. 128 We are now at last prepared to begin the study of the Renaissance transformation of the art of memory, taking as our first example..the Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo. 1966 M. McLuhan 1 Dec. (1987) 339 Vico was the first to spot language itself as a memory theatre. 1966 M. McLuhan 1 Dec. (1987) 339 The medieval cathedrals were memory theatres. 1995 48 134 This type of narrative functions in a way analogous to a contemporary memory theater. the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] > change in brain > from act of memorizing 1901 10 252 All memory-traces retained in the nervous system co-operate with the sensations in discharging, reinforcing, inhibiting or modifying reflexes. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud I. 63 Both the memory-trace and the affect attached to the idea are there once and for all. 1967 E. R. Hilgard & R. C. Atkinson (ed. 4) xii. 321/2 This particular hypothetical construct means that the memory trace does exist and that we may some day discover its nature... Hydén has proposed the theory that ribonucleic acid (RNA) might well be the complex molecule that serves as a chemical mediator for memory. 1992 13 291 Even the storage of a simple memory trace may involve several million neurons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.?c1225 |
