单词 | within memory |
释义 | > as lemmaswithin memory 4. The length of time over which the recollection of a person or a number of people extends. Chiefly in beyond (also †past, out of) (the) memory (of ——); similarly within memory, etc. †through all memory: for all time (obsolete). See also time of memory n., time out of memory n. at Phrases 4.within living memory: see living adj. 7a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > period covered by membrancea1325 memory1530 remembrance1561 recollection1828 a1460 in A. C. Swinton Swintons (1883) App. xlii The qwhilk said landis..passit memor of mene has bene..a tenandry. 1487 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 618 In paceabill possessione..at our the memori of men. 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates 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 Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 439 Vsit and perseruit all tymes bigane, past memor of man. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 9 Within memorie almost the one halfe of the first sorte be disparked. 1630 in C. H. L. Ewen Witch Hunting (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 Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 54 Why then is Pilat branded through all memory? a1676 M. Hale De Jure Maris i. vi, in F. Hargrave Coll. Tracts Law Eng. (1787) 35 That the river of the Severn usque filum aquæ was time out of memory parcell of that manor. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 13. ¶4 He..has drawn together greater Audiences than have been known in the Memory of Man. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. 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 Eng. Gilds 213 (margin) The gild was begun at a time beyond the memory of man. 1969 J. McPhee in New Yorker 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 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 25 June 5/2 This week's auctions bring to an end one of the most remarkable wool-selling seasons in memory. 1992 Gourmet Sept. 116/3 The pirating free-for-all continued until well within the memory of many townspeople today. < as lemmas |
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