Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to memory: as, the memorative faculty or power.
  • Preserving or recalling the memory of something; aiding the memory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Commemorative.

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  • adjective obsolete commemorative

Etymologies

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Compare French mémoratif.

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Examples

  • Suppose it be of a thing that is white; when the present sense of it is vanished, there is yet retained the remembrance; when many memorative notions of the same similitude do concur, then he is said to have an experience; for experience is nothing more than the abundance of notions that are of the same form met together.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • I encourage every American to participate in appropriate com-memorative programs and ceremonies in workplaces, houses of worship, and other community centers, to reach out to protect and educate our children, and to help and comfort all people who are living with HIV and

    Proclamation On World Aids Day Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1999

  • For publishing a report of the public exercises com - memorative of Koger Wolcott, late governor of the Com - monwealth, as authorized by chapter one hundred and ten of the resolves of the present year, a sum not exceed - ing one thousand dollars.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • This is done through the cogitative faculty, associating the universal with some particular image, recollected with the assistance of the intention stored in the memorative faculty; an “intention” that is the distinctive character or nature of that image. [

    Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008

  • MPULE KWELAGOBE POSTAGE STAMPS AND OTHER AWARDS AND HONORS Following her historic win of the Miss Universe pageant, Botswana Post launched five com - memorative postage stamps of Mpule.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Mpule 2010

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