Memorist
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.
"Though thou hadst the memory of Seneca or Simonides, and conscience the punctual memorist within us, yet trust not to thy remembrance in things which heed phylacteries."
- 2 One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.; One who writes or recites a history, biography, memoir, or similar work containing memories.
"Discretion is a lost art with the memorist and we would hail its return with joy and relief."
- 3 One who is capable of impressive feats of memory.
"Still, Swann did sketch some details of the island, and memorizing aerial photographs of the entire planet would tax even the most clever memorist."
- 4 One who remembers a particular thing or in a particular way.
"I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side."
Example
More examples"Though thou hadst the memory of Seneca or Simonides, and conscience the punctual memorist within us, yet trust not to thy remembrance in things which heed phylacteries."
Etymology
From memory + -ist. Piecewise doublet of memoirist.
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