单词 | memoria technica |
释义 | memoria technican. A method of assisting the memory by artificial contrivances; a system of mnemonics; a mnemonic aid or device.In early use sometimes spec. with reference to the system devised by Richard Grey (see quot. 1730), involving the memorizing of rhythmical sequences of words formed by prefixing the initial syllable or syllables of a word or name to letters representing the digits of an associated date, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] artificial memoryc1545 art of memoryc1545 art memorative1576 mnemonic1662 mnemonics1721 memoria technica1730 mnemotechnics1845 mnemotechny1845 anamnestica1856 Pelmanism1916 1730 R. Grey (title) Memoria technica; or, A new method of artificial memory. 1732 (title) Prosodia chirurgica: or, a memoria technica, calculated for the use of old practitioners, as well as young students in surgery. Being a lexicon; wherein all the terms of art are accounted for. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. Introd. Lect. 32 Must an artificial method of forgetting become even more necessary than a memoria technica? 1850 (title) Wilcongsau, or Mnemonic Hexameters, after the method of the Memoria Technica of Dr. G. English History. 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel vi. 295 Such were the 22 Books intended by Josephus, so numbered by a sort of memoria technica, in conformity to the 22 Hebrew letters. 1886 Dict. National Biogr. at Bruen, John The old man had a leathern girdle, which served him as a memoria technica, and was marked into portions for the several books of the Bible. 1918 Biometrika 12 98 This symbol is used here as at once a conventional abbreviation and a memoria technica. 1961 R. Graves in Encounter 17 14 There is still room in modern life for the epigram, the topical squib, the memoria technica. 1988 ELH 55 242 Created to serve as a ‘memoria technica’ of man's rational intuition, these dangerous images soon come instead to displace the true object of worship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1730 |
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