单词 | rememberable |
释义 | rememberableadj. Able to be or deserving of being remembered, memorable.Common in 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [adjective] > worthy of remembrance, memorable memoriablea1450 rememberablec1450 well-remembered1482 memorable1483 memorial?1504 memorousa1513 never-to-be-forgotten1586 rememorablea1641 unforgettable1806 nameable1858 memorious1882 salient1938 c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 154 Comyn poepull..han no resoun in theire iugement, For it is flittynge and noght perdurable, For why I holde it be noght remembrable [?a1425 Chaucer tr. Boethius nys..worthi to ben remembred, L. ne commemoratione quidem dignam]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Memorable, memorable, remembrable, worthie of memorie. 1800 W. Hazlitt in Morning Post 18 Mar. When all is done, nothing rememberable has been said. a1842 T. Arnold Serm. Christian Life (1845) 296 A change..of any rememberable kind. 1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry v. 143 More rememberable than any blank verse since Milton's. 1949 D. O. Hebb Organization of Behavior ii. 26 Identifiability is not merely a perceptible difference of one figure from another when the two are side by side, but implies a rememberable difference. 1997 Guardian 6 Nov. ii. 17/4 And every page has something or someone peculiar that she has found ‘rememberable’. Derivatives reˈmemberably adv. now rare ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [adverb] > memorably memorably1608 rememberably1803 unforgettably1871 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 133 The moral features of the people [are] more accurately and rememberably painted. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 157 Say what you have to say as perspicuously..and as rememberably as possible. 1932 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 6 May 1/1 The ceremony will be brief but it is certain to be rememberably impressive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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