 | John Platts - 1845 - 308 σελίδες
...the ears, eyes, &c. are members, but it is not proper to call them limbs. MEMORY, [memoria, L.] that faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of past events or ideas. REMEMBRANCE, [remembrance, OF] the recurrence of an idea to the memory. RECOLLECTION, [recolligo, to... | |
 | John Boag - 1848 - 744 σελίδες
...mém'ù-rlzd, |>. p. Recorded; committed to memory. MEMORY, m^m'ñr-í-, [L. memoria; Fr. якнют,] n. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of past events, or ideas which are past. A distinction is made between memory and ««nation. Memory retains past ideas without any, <*r with... | |
 | William W. Smith - 1858 - 128 σελίδες
...DK-CBASED' Departed from this life. FU-SE'-BS-AL • . ..Pertaining to burial. MEM'-O-BT Remembrance; the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of past events or ideas. DISEASES, MEDICINES, ETC. Phys'-ic Phy-si'Doc' tor Oc'-U-list Dent'-ist Med'-i-cine • • • A substance... | |
 | Robert Fowler - 1860 - 384 σελίδες
...membranes. MEM'BRANULE (L. dim. of membrana, membrane). A little membrane. MEM'ORY (L. memini, to remember). The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of, and recalls, past events or ideas. MENAGOGUE (Gr. menes, menstrual discharge; ago,I lead). Syn, of... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1866 - 884 σελίδες
...books oí general history. Also, short essays on particular subjects. MEM'OKY (memoria; Lot), that faculty of the mind by which It retains the knowledge of past impressions, a faculty which differs greatly In different individuals, and In the нате Individual... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1879 - 642 σελίδες
...distinguish clearly in their use. Memory is pntsiee, recollection is active. Memory is "that faculty of mind by which it retains the knowledge of past events or ideas " [Webster]. A better definition would be, physiologically speaking, " a peculiar susceptibility of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1867 - 600 σελίδες
...'.—pr.p. memorialising ; Pa.p. mfmo'rialised. memory, mem'o-ri, п., a having or keeping in the mind; the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts or events; retention; remembrance. Men, plural of Man. Memace, men'us, vt, to overhang;... | |
 | William Chambers - 1868 - 516 σελίδες
.../r./. nCmO'riallstng ; fia.p. mëmû'rialîsedmemory, mem'0-ri, п. , л having or keeping in the mind; the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts or events ; retention ; remembrance. Men.>/«tti/oflfan. Menace, men'äs, vf, to... | |
 | English language - 1872 - 426 σελίδες
...transaction. Memory, (mem'o-re) n. [L. memoria, from memor, mindful, from meminitse, to remember.] The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts or events ; remembrance ; recollect,on, Menace, (inen'as) n. [L. minacuv, from minax,... | |
 | 1872 - 406 σελίδες
...transaction. Memory, (mem'd-re) n. [L. memoria, from taemor, mindful, from meminisse, to remember.] The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts or events ; remembrance ; recollection. ffenace, (men'as) n. [L. minaciw, from minax,... | |
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... the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of past events, or ideas which are past. 
