disrememberv.
/dɪsrɪˈmɛmbə/ Chiefly dialect.
To fail to remember; to forget. (transitive and absol.)
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (intransitive)]
misremember1614
misrecollect1787
disremember1815
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (transitive)] > forget, cease to know
forgetc888
unremember1484
tine1513
lose1530
retire1549
unknowa1586
forlet1813
disremember1815
1815 in Doc. Hist. Amer. Industr. Soc. (1910) IV. 25 I belonged to the Society about fifteen months; as to the constitution I disremember, the rules I recollect.
1834 M. Edgeworth Let. in Tour Connemara (1950) ii. 93 He had some outlandish name that was gone out of his head—that he disremembered.
1836 F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout (1859) 373 The..lines of the author he feigns to disremember.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ix. 160 I disremember rightly what I did.
1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 13 If he did not disremember, he would look at it before he went to bed.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. vii. 194 [American speaking] I disremembered to ask when the mails went out.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Disremember, to forget. [Also in Glossaries of Sussex, Berks, Hants, and in Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1860).]
c1885 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 97 Qúite Disremembering, dísmémbering áll now.
1928 D. Byrne Destiny Bay viii. 382 Either in Ohio or Illinois, I disremember which.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling i. 13 ‘Do you mind what we said we'd do, full moon in April?’ ‘I disremember.’
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