单词 | memorialist |
释义 | memorialistn.adj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 7 Aug. 1/2 The nauseous Memorialist, with the most fulsom Flattery tells the Queen of her Thunder. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.adj.1706 |
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