memorizev.

Brit.

/ˈmɛmərʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˈmɛməˌraɪz/

Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s– memorise, 1500s– memorize.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: memory n., -ize suffix.

Etymology: < memor- (in memory n., etc.) + -ize suffix. Compare Middle French memoriser to recall to the memory (1488 in an isolated attestation), French mémoriser (18th cent. in Swiss French in sense 3, from early 20th cent. in general French use).

†1. transitive. To perpetuate the memory of in writing; to put on record; to relate, record, mention. Also with clause as object. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > commemorate [verb (transitive)] > in speech or writing

memorize1590

commemorate1714

1590 E. Spenser To Lord of Buckhurst in Faerie Queene sig. Qq3^v In vain I thinke right honourable Lord, By this rude rime to memorize thy name.

1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 364 Because they living cared not to cherishe No gentle wits..Which might their names for ever memorize.

1619 G. Wither Vox Pacifica ii. 45 You have not memorized..How God..against your Enemies hath fought.

1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 174 Here flourished the exact martiall discipline, so memorized by ancient Historiographers.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 11 I arriued at Rome, of the which I will memorize, some rarest things.

1701 J. 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.

1831 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 318 The R. A. here memorised was George Dawe.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 238 Like to the favour, Maro memorized, Was granted Aristæus.

a. transitive. With impersonal subject: to keep alive the memory or recollection of; to cause to be remembered, make memorable. Also intransitive: to be a memorial or memento. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > commemorate [verb (transitive)]

mingOE

mina1200

remenec1400

remember?a1439

memorize1593

commemorize1628

commemoratea1638

embalma1674

monument1756

memorialize1798

anniversary1841

monumentalize1857

mark1871

obituarize1877

jubilee1887

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 36 Eate of my sonne one morsel yet, that it may memorize against you, ye are accessary to his dismembering.

1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades ii. 22 This Ioue affirmes, which let thy thoughts be sure to memorise.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxi. 23 Nothing..Except poore widdowes cries, to memorize your theft.

1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. i. 27 The Hellespont memorised by the famous death of Hero and Leander.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 412 A Cenotaph to memorise our grave.

1854 W. H. C. Hosmer Poet. Wks. II. 77 Anointed Folly from his regal seat Points to proud arch, or labyrinth of Crete, As monuments to memorize his sway When kingdom, crown, and court have passed away.

b. transitive. With personal subject. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E^v His fortune or rather misfortune..is memorized by vs in a prouerbial byword.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 40 Except they meant to..memorize another Golgotha.

a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) ii. 28 To memorize this victory, the King did found an Episcopal See.

1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper xiii. 146 Memorizing him in a piece of bread and cup of wine.

1802 W. S. Landor Poetry (new ed.) 1 Muses..Who from your sacred mountain..hear and memorize [printed memorate, corrected in Errata; 1800 memorate] The crimes of men and counsels of the Gods.

1808 Fashionable Biogr. 9 With the most deeply ensoul'd veneration for your august character I..shall ever memorise, prime of intellectual solaces, that condescension, [etc.].

1893 R. W. Gilder Great Remembrance 70 Because the sweet of youth Doth vanish all too soon, Shall I forget..My joy to memorize In those young eyes?

3. transitive. Originally U.S. To commit to memory, learn by heart. Occasionally used intransitively in same sense. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > memorize, learn by heart [verb (transitive)]

record?c1225

renderc1380

to can by rotec1405

con?a1425

to con by heartc1449

can1496

to bear away1530

get1540

commend to memory1550

commit?1551

to con over1605

rotea1616

lodge1622

to get off by heart1709

memorize1834

rehearse1902

memorate1983

1834 N. Amer. Rev. July 37 It [sc. history] teaches men to think more and to memorize less in modern times.

1838 P. H. Gosse Let. 16 June in Lett. from Alabama (1859) v. 110 ‘Good’, is used in the sense of ‘well’;..To learn a thing by heart is to ‘memorize’ it.

1843 Southern Q. Rev. Jan. 30 It was the custom of the French preachers to write their sermons, and memorize them.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 552 His power of memorizing and improvising music.

1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ vi. 150 The sharp..should be able to memorise instantly as many cards as possible.

1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xxix. 228 He did not remember having seen a book called The Grand Manner, but he was not a man you would expect to memorize book titles.

1947 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 2 359 The high computing speed possible with electronic devices become useful only when sufficient intermediate results can be memorized rapidly.

1978 G. Greene Human Factor iii. iv. 145 Simplicity was always best, just as it paid to speak the truth whenever possible, for the truth is so much easier to memorise than a lie.

Derivatives

ˈmemorized adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adjective] > committed to memory

perfect1581

memorized1592

by-rote1598

indelible1615

1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 106 Seld well got honor sufferd is to die But memorized liues perpetually.

1604 S. Grahame Passionate Sparke sig. B3 Spending the rare inuention of their braines, On idle toyes, at which high honor spittes, Nor memoriz'd memorials remaines.

1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 297 An easily memorized series of shop sizes.

1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider xvi. 429 She was speaking with a tone of dispassionate precision, as though delivering a memorized and only half-understood message.

ˈmemorizing adj. and n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun]

i-mindOE

mindc1300

commemorationc1384

meaninga1400

memorial?1471

recordance1490

mind-making1496

mindfulness1530

memorizing1600

recordancy1654

memorialization1862

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [adjective]

memorialc1390

memoranda1400

anniversary1449

memorative1449

memorala1500

recordative?1551

memorizing1600

commemorative1612

commemoratory1695

commemorating1766

commemorational1880

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [noun]

memorization1816

committal1824

memorizing1890

1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. D Who vow'd his name should be æternized..In memorizing lines.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 135 A place scarce worth the memorizing.

1890 J. G. Fitch Notes Amer. Schools 50 What is oddly called ‘memorizing’..is often confined to the reproduction of scraps of information or short passages from text-books.

1937 Discovery Sept. 293/2 The author also gives valuable advice upon memorising.

1994 Eng. Today Oct. 38/2 I would hire a roadgrader to go over the Korean monuments of memorizing to clear the way for a parking lot for more Mandarin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	memorize
释义	memorizev. Brit. /ˈmɛmərʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈmɛməˌraɪz/ Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s– memorise, 1500s– memorize. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: memory n., -ize suffix. Etymology: < memor- (in memory n., etc.) + -ize suffix. Compare Middle French memoriser to recall to the memory (1488 in an isolated attestation), French mémoriser (18th cent. in Swiss French in sense 3, from early 20th cent. in general French use). †1. transitive. To perpetuate the memory of in writing; to put on record; to relate, record, mention. Also with clause as object. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > commemorate [verb (transitive)] > in speech or writing memorize1590 commemorate1714 1590 E. Spenser To Lord of Buckhurst in Faerie Queene sig. Qq3^v In vain I thinke right honourable Lord, By this rude rime to memorize thy name. 1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 364 Because they living cared not to cherishe No gentle wits..Which might their names for ever memorize. 1619 G. Wither Vox Pacifica ii. 45 You have not memorized..How God..against your Enemies hath fought. 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 174 Here flourished the exact martiall discipline, so memorized by ancient Historiographers. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 11 I arriued at Rome, of the which I will memorize, some rarest things. 1701 J. 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. 1831 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 318 The R. A. here memorised was George Dawe. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 238 Like to the favour, Maro memorized, Was granted Aristæus. 2. a. transitive. With impersonal subject: to keep alive the memory or recollection of; to cause to be remembered, make memorable. Also intransitive: to be a memorial or memento. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > commemorate [verb (transitive)] mingOE mina1200 remenec1400 remember?a1439 memorize1593 commemorize1628 commemoratea1638 embalma1674 monument1756 memorialize1798 anniversary1841 monumentalize1857 mark1871 obituarize1877 jubilee1887 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 36 Eate of my sonne one morsel yet, that it may memorize against you, ye are accessary to his dismembering. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades ii. 22 This Ioue affirmes, which let thy thoughts be sure to memorise. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxi. 23 Nothing..Except poore widdowes cries, to memorize your theft. 1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. i. 27 The Hellespont memorised by the famous death of Hero and Leander. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 412 A Cenotaph to memorise our grave. 1854 W. H. C. Hosmer Poet. Wks. II. 77 Anointed Folly from his regal seat Points to proud arch, or labyrinth of Crete, As monuments to memorize his sway When kingdom, crown, and court have passed away. b. transitive. With personal subject. Now rare. ΚΠ 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E^v His fortune or rather misfortune..is memorized by vs in a prouerbial byword. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 40 Except they meant to..memorize another Golgotha. View more context for this quotation a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) ii. 28 To memorize this victory, the King did found an Episcopal See. 1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper xiii. 146 Memorizing him in a piece of bread and cup of wine. 1802 W. S. Landor Poetry (new ed.) 1 Muses..Who from your sacred mountain..hear and memorize [printed memorate, corrected in Errata; 1800 memorate] The crimes of men and counsels of the Gods. 1808 Fashionable Biogr. 9 With the most deeply ensoul'd veneration for your august character I..shall ever memorise, prime of intellectual solaces, that condescension, [etc.]. 1893 R. W. Gilder Great Remembrance 70 Because the sweet of youth Doth vanish all too soon, Shall I forget..My joy to memorize In those young eyes? 3. transitive. Originally U.S. To commit to memory, learn by heart. Occasionally used intransitively in same sense. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > memorize, learn by heart [verb (transitive)] record?c1225 renderc1380 to can by rotec1405 con?a1425 to con by heartc1449 can1496 to bear away1530 get1540 commend to memory1550 commit?1551 to con over1605 rotea1616 lodge1622 to get off by heart1709 memorize1834 rehearse1902 memorate1983 1834 N. Amer. Rev. July 37 It [sc. history] teaches men to think more and to memorize less in modern times. 1838 P. H. Gosse Let. 16 June in Lett. from Alabama (1859) v. 110 ‘Good’, is used in the sense of ‘well’;..To learn a thing by heart is to ‘memorize’ it. 1843 Southern Q. Rev. Jan. 30 It was the custom of the French preachers to write their sermons, and memorize them. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 552 His power of memorizing and improvising music. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ vi. 150 The sharp..should be able to memorise instantly as many cards as possible. 1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xxix. 228 He did not remember having seen a book called The Grand Manner, but he was not a man you would expect to memorize book titles. 1947 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 2 359 The high computing speed possible with electronic devices become useful only when sufficient intermediate results can be memorized rapidly. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor iii. iv. 145 Simplicity was always best, just as it paid to speak the truth whenever possible, for the truth is so much easier to memorise than a lie. Derivatives ˈmemorized adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adjective] > committed to memory perfect1581 memorized1592 by-rote1598 indelible1615 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 106 Seld well got honor sufferd is to die But memorized liues perpetually. 1604 S. Grahame Passionate Sparke sig. B3 Spending the rare inuention of their braines, On idle toyes, at which high honor spittes, Nor memoriz'd memorials remaines. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 297 An easily memorized series of shop sizes. 1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider xvi. 429 She was speaking with a tone of dispassionate precision, as though delivering a memorized and only half-understood message. ˈmemorizing adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] i-mindOE mindc1300 commemorationc1384 meaninga1400 memorial?1471 recordance1490 mind-making1496 mindfulness1530 memorizing1600 recordancy1654 memorialization1862 the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [adjective] memorialc1390 memoranda1400 anniversary1449 memorative1449 memorala1500 recordative?1551 memorizing1600 commemorative1612 commemoratory1695 commemorating1766 commemorational1880 the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [noun] memorization1816 committal1824 memorizing1890 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. D Who vow'd his name should be æternized..In memorizing lines. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 135 A place scarce worth the memorizing. 1890 J. G. Fitch Notes Amer. Schools 50 What is oddly called ‘memorizing’..is often confined to the reproduction of scraps of information or short passages from text-books. 1937 Discovery Sept. 293/2 The author also gives valuable advice upon memorising. 1994 Eng. Today Oct. 38/2 I would hire a roadgrader to go over the Korean monuments of memorizing to clear the way for a parking lot for more Mandarin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1590
随便看	to begin at to begin at formerly from to begin at the wrong end to begin by to begin life to begin the board to begin the board, dais to begin the dais to begin the world to begin to a person to begin upon a person to begin with to begin with formerly at to begin with formerly by to begin with formerly from to begin with, to begin with, withal obs to begin withal to begin, lead the dance to behave towards or to to behold to behold no person to behold no persons to belie the truth to believe meanly of