Memory
Memory , noun
[Old English memorie, Old French memoire, memorie, French mémoire, Latin memoria, from memor mindful; compare mora delay. Compare Demur, Martyr, Memoir, Remember.]
1.
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memory is the purveyor of reason.
2.
The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
3.
The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
4.
The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
And what, before thy memory, was done
From the begining.
5.
Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
The memory of the just is blessed.
That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
The Nonconformists... have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.
6.
A memorial. [Obsolete]
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Collocations (1)
To draw to memory , to put on record; to record. [Obsolete] — Chaucer. Gower