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  • noun Alternative spelling of memorate.

Etymologies

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From Latin memoratus, past participle of memorare ("to bring to remembrance, mention, recount"), from memor ("remembering"); see memory.

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Examples

  • Then Brian Attebery gave a fascinating talk on how the memorat "telling of a personal experience without artistic pretense or traditional motifs" framing structure of many folktales and urban legends can be seen in fantasy narratives.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Karen Burnham 2008

  • * Spiritualia illis traditurus, exemplum prioris conversationis memorat; ut sicut simulacrorum fuerunt forma colentes idola, et ducebantur duce voluntate daemoniorum; ita et colentes deum sint forma legis dominicae.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [3] "Spiritualia illis traditurus, exemplum prioris conversationis memorat; ut sicut simulacrorum fuerunt forma colentes idola, et ducebantur duce voluntate daemoniorum; ita et colentes deum sint forma legis dominicae."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Post, ubi silentium coepit, producto Jugurtha, verba facit; Romae Numidiaeque [208] facinora ejus memorat, scelera in patrem fratresque ostendit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Egomet mihi non credo, cum illaec autumare illum audio; hic quidem certe quae illic sunt res gestae memorat memoriter. sed quid ais? quid Amphitruoni doni a Telobois datum est?

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Pater nunc intus suo animo morem gerit: cubat complexus cuius cupiens maxime est; quae illi ad legionem facta sunt memorat pater meus Alcumenae: illa illum censet virum suom esse, quae cum moecho est. ibi nunc meus pater memorat, legiones hostium ut fugaverit, quo pacto sit donis donatus plurimis.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • ET cita cum tremulis anus attulit artubus lumen. talia tum memorat lacrimans exterrita somno:

    The Vision of Ilia 1912

  • Hesiodus memorat diuos diuumque parentes et chaos enixum terras orbemque sub illo infantem et primos titubantia sidera cursus

    The Theme of the Astrological Poet 1912

  • Concitatur vulgus studio libertatis repetendre, alque per multa secula patrum plebisque contentiones historia Romana memorat; patribus pristinam auctoriratem servare conatis, liccentiaque plebis omnia jura spernante.

    A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

  • Concitatur vulgus studio libertatis repetendre, alque per multa secula patrum plebisque contentiones historia Romana memorat; patribus pristinam auctoriratem servare conatis, liccentiaque plebis omnia jura spernante.

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • If it were the teller’s own experience, that would make it a memorat in folklore jargon.

    How Folklore Goes Digital RETURN 2023

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