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  • noun Persisting effect of memory of past events.

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Examples

  • That has to do with transforming a death-dealing idea into a life-giving idea, in creating a new mneme from the Greek word for memory that will reproduce among our species in the same way a gene does and convince us to save us from ourselves by restoring the Earth to balance.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Alanna Mitchell 2011

  • Finally, after many minutes of struggle, I put on my thinking boots andinventeda newword: mnemencholy, derived from mneme (memory) and melancholy (sadness).

    Lexicographical Love « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • Finally, after many minutes of struggle, I put on my thinking boots andinventeda newword: mnemencholy, derived from mneme (memory) and melancholy (sadness).

    2008 November 03 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • Again, the word istoria (enquiry) bears upon the face of it the stopping (istanai) of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly indicates cessation of motion; then, again, mneme (memory), as any one may see, expresses rest in the soul, and not motion.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • In illustration of the use of mneme in this sense Du Cange cites Act. Conc.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • If there is a river of _mneme_ as a counterpart of the river

    Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • If there is a river of _mneme_ as a counterpart of the river

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • And the mneme to be altered corrects a mangled interpretation of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Alanna Mitchell 2011

  • (enquiry) bears upon the face of it the stopping (istanai) of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly indicates cessation of motion; then, again, mneme (memory), as any one may see, expresses rest in the soul, and not motion.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

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  • Psychology, persisting effect of memory of past events. (From Luciferous Logolepsy)

    June 9, 2008