| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (I) Formation of Ideas |
| Section VI. Extension of Thought |
| 1. To the Past |
| 505. Memory. |
| NOUN: | MEMORY, remembrance; retentivity, retention, retentiveness; tenacity; veteris vestigia flammœ [L.]; tablets of the memory; readiness. retentive -, tenacious -, trustworthy -, capacious -, faithful -, correct -, exact -, ready -, prompt- memory; Memory’s halls, Memory’s pictures. RECOLLECTION, reminiscence, recognition, recurrence, rememoration [rare], rememorance [rare]; retrospect, retrospection; “that inward eye” [Wordsworth]; afterthought. REMINDER; suggestion (information) [See Information]; prompting &c. v.; hint, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorandum (pl. memoranda); remembrancer, flapper; memorial (record) [See Record]; commemoration (celebration) [See Celebration]. things to be remembered, memorabilia. MNEMONICS; art of -, artificial- memory; memoria technica [L.]; mnemotechnics, mnemotechny; Mnemosyne. AIDS TO MEMORY, jogger [colloq.], memorandum book, notebook, prompt-book, engagement book. FAME, celebrity, renown, reputation (repute) [See Repute]. |
| VERB: | REMEMBER, mind [obsoles.], rememorate [rare]; retain the -memory, - remembrance- of; keep in view. have -, hold -, bear -, carry -, keep-, retain- in or in the -thoughts, - mind, - memory, - remembrance; be in -, live in -, remain in -, dwell in -, haunt -, impress- one’s -memory, - thoughts, - mind. sink in the mind; run in the head; not be able to get it out of one’s head; be deeply impressed with; rankle (revenge) [See Revenge]. recognize, bethink oneself, recall, call up, conjure up, retrace; look -, trace- -back, - backwards; think upon, look back upon; review; call -, recall -, bring- to -mind, - remembrance; carry one’s thoughts back; rake up the past. redeem from oblivion; keep the -memory alive, - wound green; tangere ulcus [L.]; keep the memory green, keep up the memory of; commemorate (celebrate) [See Celebration]. RECOLLECT, recur to the mind; flash on the mind, flash across the memory. REMIND; suggest (inform) [See Information]; prompt; put -, keep- in mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem [L.]; task -, tax -, jog -, flap -, refresh -, rub up -, awaken- the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize. MEMORIZE, commit to memory; con, - over; fix -, rivet -, imprint -, impress -, stamp -, grave -, engrave -, store -, treasure up -, bottle up -, embalm -, bury -, enshrine- in the memory; load -, store -, stuff -, burden- the memory with; get -, have -, learn -, know -, say -, repeat- by -heart, - rote; get -, drive- into one’s head; bury in the mind; say one’s lesson; repeat, - like a parrot; have at one’s fingers’ ends. make a note of (record) [See Record]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | REMEMBERING, remembered &c. v.; mindful, reminiscential; alive in memory; retained in the memory &c. v.; pent up in one’s memory; fresh; green, - in remembrance; still vivid, rememorant [rare]; not -, never -to be erased, - to be forgotten; unforgettable or unforgetable; enduring, - in memory; unforgotten, present to the mind; within one’s memory &c. n.; indelible; uppermost in one’s thoughts; memorable (important) [See Importance]; suggestive. |
| ADVERB: | BY HEART, par cœur [F.], by rote; without book, memoriter [L.]. IN MEMORY OF; in memoriam [L.]; memoriâ in œternâ [L.]. |
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