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memorize, v.|ˈmɛməraɪz|
[f. memory + -ize.]
1. trans. To keep alive the memory or recollection of; to cause to be remembered, make memorable. Now rare or Obs.
1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 58 His fortune or rather misfortune..is memorized by vs in a prouerbial byword. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. ii. 40 Except they meane to..memorize another Golgotha. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. ii. (1677) 28 To memorize this victory, the King did found an Episcopal See. 1657R. Vines Lord's Supper (1677) 162 Memorizing him in a piece of bread and cup of wine. 1846Landor Hellenics Wks. II. 484 Muses..Who from your sacred mountain..hear and memorise The crimes of men and counsels of the Gods.
b. Said of impersonal subjects. Also intr. To be a memorial or memento.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 36 Eate of my sonne one morsel yet, that it may memorize against you, ye are accessary to his dismembering. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxi. 160 Nothing..Except poore widdowes cries to memorize your theft. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 621 The Hellespont, memorized by the famous death of Hero and Leander. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 412 A Cenotaph to memorise our grave.
2. To perpetuate the memory of in writing; to put on record; to relate, record, mention. Now rare.
1591Spenser Ruines of Time 364 Because they living cared not to cherishe No gentle wits..Which might their names for ever memorize. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 11, I arriued at Rome, of the which I will memorize, some rarest things. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 88 Here flourished the exact Martial discipline, so memorized by ancient Historiographers. 1701J. Prince (title) Danmonii Orientales Illustres...A Work wherein the Lives and Fortunes of the Most famous Divines,..Natives of that most noble Province..are memoriz'd. 1831Lamb Let. to Moxon in Final Mem. viii, The R.A. here memorised, was George Daw. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 1345 Like the strange favour, Maro memorized As granted Aristæus.
with clause.1619Wither Vox Pacif. ii. 45 You have not memorized..How God..against your Enemies hath fought.
3. To commit to memory. Chiefly U.S.
1856Olmsted Slave States 552 His power of memorizing and improvising music. 1878W. H. Daniels That Boy ix. 140 He had even taken the pains to memorize a number of hymns and sonnets. 1894Maskelyne Sharps & Flats vi. 150 The sharp..should be able to memorise instantly as many cards as possible.
Hence ˈmemorized ppl. a., ˈmemorizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈmemorizable a., that may be memorized or committed to memory; memoriˈzation, the action of the verb memorize; ˈmemorizer, one who memorizes.
1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. Wks. 1878 II. 211 Who vow'd his name should be æternized..In memorizing lines. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 135 A place scarce worth the memorizing. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. iii. §2. 145 Jerome had more learning, Augustine had more logic; the former being the greater memorizer. 1884American VIII. 396 Any good memorizable series. 1886–7T. Grady Proc. Amer. Instruct. Deaf 261 A vast process of memorization. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 297 An easily memorized series of shop sizes. 1890J. G. Fitch Notes Amer. Schools & Training Coll. 50 What is oddly called ‘memorizing’..is often confined to the reproduction of scraps of information or short passages from text-books. |