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单词 memorialist
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memorialistn.adj.

Brit. /mᵻˈmɔːrɪəlᵻst/, U.S. /məˈmɔriələst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: memorial n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < memorial n. + -ist suffix. Compare French mémorialiste (1726).
1. Chiefly U.S. A person who presents a memorial (memorial n. 5b); a petitioner. Now rare.The phrase your memorialist is sometimes used in letters, apparently even if not petitionary in nature, to denote the writer.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals
beseecher1382
petitioner1414
suitor1414
orator1417
suppliantc1422
supplicant1475
soliciter1536
solicitor1551
oratricle1574
pleader1584
supplicationer1585
beggar1589
incaller?1591
supplicator1593
petitor1596
beadsman1600
impetrator1605
implorer1611
imploratora1616
replicant1622
invokera1649
prostrate1648
deprecator1656
appellant1704
memorialist1706
applicationer1710
postulant1733
invocant1751
solicitant1821
petitionist1822
memorializer1859
1706 in Acts & Resolves Mass. Bay (1895) VIII. 721 Resolved That the sum of three hundred & fifty Pounds, be allowed..to Mr Thomas Oakes the memorialist.
1741 in G. Sheldon Hist. Deerfield, Mass. (1895) I. xv. 491 Your Memorialist Humbly prays that a consideration of the sd affair may be had.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. xliv. 40 The king..receiving his petition very graciously, asked in what regiment he served; and when the memorialist answered, that [etc.].
1795 R. B. Sheridan Let. 5 Dec. (1966) II. 31 Since this Day Fortnight your memorialist occupied unceasingly on the Public business or the secret committee has not been able to dine once with his Family.
1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage III. xxxi. 291 Mr. Temple got away from memorialists, petitioners, grievances, men of business, idle men, newsmen, and dear friends.
1842 Promethean Jan. 18/3 Your memorialists cannot but see, the pride of the Church in her hierophantic pomp..and in her treatment of the poor.
1873 G. L. Harrison Let. 15 Sept. in Chapters on Social Sci. (1877) 75 Submitted with great respect by your memorialist and humble servant, Geo. L. Harrison, President.
1899 Congress. Rec. (U.S.) 15 Jan. (1900) 798/2 We, your memorialists, the legislature of the State of Washington, represent as follows.
2.
a. A writer of biographical or historical memorials, a memoirist. Also (occasionally) as adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > historian
historian?a1439
historierc1449
storierc1449
story writer?c1475
histographera1513
historician1531
historiographer1542
historic1599
historianess1683
memorialist1711
logographer1846
logograph1862
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > biographer
life-writer1611
biographer1644
biographista1661
biologist1686
memorialist1711
Boswell1857
1711 Free-thinker 1 Dec. 1/2 Memorialist Authors..pride themselves in retailing the Characters of great Men.
a1750 L. Pilkington Mem. (1754) III. 143 I really set down nothing but what I know to be Truth, which is more than most of our modern Memorialists can say, who present us with Heaps of Improbabilities.
1757 (title) Du Plessis's Memoirs: or, Variety of Adventures. Interspers'd with Characters and Reflections, moral, satirical, instructive and humourous. With a description of some Strolling-Players, amongst whom the Memorialist travell'd awhile, before his last Departure from England.
1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 ii. 29 The pains..the celebrated memorialist takes to gloss over her actions.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 559 We purpose to collect from these obscure, but most interesting memorialists, a few sketches and biographical portraits of these great princes.
1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. i. Introd. 1 In one sense a statesman's contemporaries..must be the best, if not the only true memorialists and recorders.
1984 Listener 18 Oct. 38/1 John McGrath..will flush out a whole new generation of memorialists.
2000 Spectator 25 Nov. 46/1 His [sc. Sir Walter Ralegh's] famous turret-study overlooking the Thames, the prospect from which, wrote his memorialist John Aubrey, ‘is as pleasant perhaps as any in the world’.
b. A person who gives a memorial address. rare.
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1713 R. Steele in Guardian 7 Aug. 1/2 The nauseous Memorialist, with the most fulsom Flattery tells the Queen of her Thunder.
3. A person who has a good memory. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > [noun] > person with good memory
memorialist1719
memorist1872
1719 Free-thinker No. 113. 2 Others..look on a mere Memorialist as an ill-digested Common-Place Book.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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