Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- From memory; by heart: as, to recite a poem memoriter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By, or from, memory.
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- adverb By, or from,
memory .
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Examples
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Nothing in this case better than study; semper aliquid memoriter ediscant, saith Piso, let them learn something without book, transcribe, translate, &c. Read the
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His quotations from the Psalms, memoriter, are more accurate than others.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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[3113] The words are loosely quoted memoriter, as is the custom with
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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* Ut ventum est ad horam profitendae fidei quae verbis certis conceptis retentisque memoriter, de loco eminentiore, in conspectu populi fidelis, Romae reddi solet ab eis qui accessuri sunt ad gratiam tuam, oblatum esse dicebat Victorino a presbyteris, ut secretius redderet, sicut nonnullis qui verecundia trepidaturi videbantur, offerri mos erat; illum autem maluisse salutem suam in conspectu sanctae multitudinis profiteri.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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The Druids on the continent never committed their mysteries to writing, but taught their pupils _memoriter_.
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield
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Hariolare. edepol senem Demaenetum lepidum fuisse nobis: 580 ut adsimulabat Sauream med esse quam facete! nimis aegre risum contini, ubi hospitem inclamavit, quod se absente mihi fidem habere noluisset. ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat atriensem.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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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
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Em istuc si potes memoriter meminisse, inest spes nobis in hac astutia.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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The complaints of educators that learning does not enter into character and affect conduct; the protests against memoriter work, against cramming, against gradgrind preoccupation with "facts," against devotion to wire-drawn distinctions and ill-understood rules and principles, all follow from this state of affairs.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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Page 18 problems and long memoriter lessons, cast a shadow across my happy life on the farm; but even these had their compensation in baseball or shinney at recess and during the long noon intermission.
War stories and school-day incidents for the children, Berrien McPherson 1912
whichbe commented on the word memoriter
From memory; by heart. (From Luciferous Logolepsy)
June 9, 2008