Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That has a good memory.
- Worthy to be remembered.
- Invested with memories.
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- adjective of a person having an unusually good
memory - adjective
easy toremember , often for specific reason - adjective Relating to
memories .
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Examples
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Mr. Foer introduces us not just to remarkably memorious people but to a few who can't recall much at all.
In the Memory Palace Elizabeth F. Loftus 2011
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That headline describes my current state--hence this week's late, abbreviated 52 Pickup--and it's also the punch line to a joke I liked as a kid, involving an elderly and memorious Native American.
Week 22: Fried Douglas Wolk 2006
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That headline describes my current state--hence this week's late, abbreviated 52 Pickup--and it's also the punch line to a joke I liked as a kid, involving an elderly and memorious Native American.
Archive 2006-10-01 Douglas Wolk 2006
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Not without regret I saw the last of the memorious old castle and of
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Far over the rising hills of the north bank rose shaggy Cintra, 'the most blessed spot in the habitable globe,' with its memorious convent and its Moorish castle.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Yet memorious of their countrymen's great deeds, and depending upon divine protection, they made no doubt of surmounting all difficulties.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Fable-type stories: Funes the memorious, by Jorge Luis Borges; The distance of the moon, by Italo Calvino; Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, by Barry Targan.
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Yet memorious of their countrymen’s great deeds, and depending upon divine protection, they made no doubt of surmounting all difficulties.
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"Ghor," the noble and memorious Wady el-'Akabah, supposed to have given a name to Arabia. [
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
chained_bear commented on the word memorious
"The memorious gelding paced into the stable, and while Padeen tried to extricate the rear-children from the dog-boxes, where in their squabbling they had contrived to entangle themselves in a half-bale of close-meshed netting, Stephen walked into the William's Head."
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen,
March 27, 2008