remembrancen.

Brit.

/rᵻˈmɛmbr(ə)ns/, U.S.

/rəˈmɛmbrəns/,

/riˈmɛmbrəns/

Forms: Middle English rememberauns, Middle English rememberavns, Middle English rememberawns, Middle English remembranse, Middle English remembraunse, Middle English remembrawnce, Middle English remembrons, Middle English remenbrans, Middle English–1500s remembrans, Middle English–1500s remembrauns, Middle English–1600s rememberaunce, Middle English–1600s remembraunce, Middle English–1600s remenbraunce, Middle English– rememberance, Middle English– remembrance, late Middle English rebembraunce (probably transmission error), late Middle English remberaunce (transmission error), late Middle English rembrance (transmission error), late Middle English remeberance (transmission error), late Middle English rememberowns, late Middle English rememburrans (in a late copy), late Middle English remememberance (transmission error), 1500s rememberans, 1500s remembraunche, 1500s remembreaunce, 1500s remembruance (transmission error); also Scottish pre-1700 ramemberance, pre-1700 ramembrans, pre-1700 rememberance, pre-1700 rememberans, pre-1700 rememberaunce, pre-1700 rememberence, pre-1700 remembirance, pre-1700 remembrance, pre-1700 remembrans, pre-1700 remembranse, pre-1700 remembraunce, pre-1700 remenbrance, pre-1700 remimberance, pre-1700 remmenbrance.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French remembrance ; remember v.¹, -ance suffix.

Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman remembraunce, remenbrance, remenbraunce, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French remembrance (French remembrance (now archaic or literary)) awareness, consciousness (c1100 in Old French), memory, recollection (early 12th cent.), mention, notice, record (second half of the 12th cent., frequently in faire remembrance : see note), (with possessive pronoun) a person's memory (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), official record (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), memorial (of a person, thing, or fact) (c1327), mental image (first half of the 14th cent.), formal or public memory or commemoration of a dead person (1415 or earlier), keepsake, souvenir (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: a1444; < remembrer remember v.¹ + -ance , -aunce -ance suffix), and partly (in later use) < remember v.¹+ -ance suffix. Compare Old Occitan remembransa (c1200), Catalan remembrança (12th cent.), Spanish remembranza (1230), Portuguese relembrança , (now archaic or literary) remembrança (both 14th cent.), Italian rimembranza (a1301; now literary); also post-classical Latin remembrantia (1415, 1431 in British sources). Compare earlier memory n. and later commemoration n., memorial n., with which the word shows semantic overlap.With to have (or keep) in remembrance at sense 1a compare Anglo-Norman aver en remembrance , Old French, Middle French avoir en remembrance to bear in mind, remember (early 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman). With to bring to remembrance at sense 1a, to put (a person) in remembrance of at sense 1b compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French mettre en remembrance (end of the 13th cent. or earlier). With to make remembrance at sense 7 compare Middle French faire remembrance (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French). With book of remembrance n. at Phrases 2 compare post-classical Latin liber memorialis (Vetus Latina, originally in specific use with reference to such a book said to be kept by God). In clerk of the remembrance at sense 8c after Anglo-Norman clerc de la remembrancie (1363 in the Act of Parliament mentioned in quot. 1607, 37 Edw. III c. 4).

I. Senses in which the idea of an external stimulus to memory or thought is weak: cf. remember v.¹ I.**

1. Memory or recollection, or, in early use, †thought, in relation to a particular object, fact, etc.

a. Without dependent phrase or clause. Esp. in phrases to have (or keep) in remembrance, to bring to remembrance. See also to call to remembrance at call v. Phrases 3a.

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c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 5288 (MED) Þer was noble contenaunce In bataile of remembraunce.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 69 (MED) He schal drawe into remembrance The fortune of this worldes chance.

a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 6926 Whoso hadde sene hys cuntenaunse, Wolde euer had hym in remembraunse.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 49 The moste remembraunce that I shall haue shall be vpon yow and on yowre nedes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 351 Here is to be called to remembraunce what I sayd afore of quel.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. xii. 42 They..besought God, that the fawte..might be put out of remembraunce.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B1v I cannot call your name to remembrance.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋7 He hath for euer bound the Church vnto him, in a debt of speciall remembrance.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 704 Worthiest to be all Had in remembrance alwayes with delight.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 501 This ever grateful in remembrance bear.

1826 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (1830) 5 Secured to remembrance by the pencil.

1854 T. Pearson Infidelity Introd. p. vii We are not so moodishly disposed as to call to remembrance the former days and say that they were better than the present.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 231 Look that..deep-laid in steady remembrance These our words grow greenly.

1918 A. E. H. Barr Paper Cap vi. 127 When he called to remembrance the events between the rejection of the first Reform Bill and its present struggle, he was really amazed that people could think or talk of any other thing.

1955 R. Humphries tr. Ovid Metamorphoses iv. 86 And you, O tree, now shading The body of one, and very soon to shadow The bodies of two, keep in remembrance always The sign of our death, the dark and mournful color.

1982 F. Chenderlin Do this as my Memorial ii. iii. 117 The latter, the sin offering, is not meant to bring sin to remembrance except as the cause of the situation.

2003 R. Hardy Sammy: Women Troubles xi. 154 She closed her eyes in remembrance and Marni quietly shed tears.

b. With of, †infinitive, or object clause. Esp. in phrases to have remembrance of, † to put (a person) in remembrance of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection > of something particular

remembrancec1350

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c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 86 (MED) Þe folk of þe werlde haþ no remembraunce of þe holy þat han ben.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 188 This maketh Emelye haue remembrance To doon honour to May.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 166 Þei will maken hire ydoles or an ymage of ony of hire frendes for to haue remembrance of hym [?a1425 Egerton to hafe þam in mynde euermare].

1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 128 This myght..put hym in remembrauns what tyme he hath lost.

a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 6491 (MED) Suche a traytowre shulde dye ofte, Þat myghte ofte haue remembraunce [a1450 Univ. Oxf. remenbrans] Off hys fals and vn-trewe gouernaunce.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ix. f. 43 Yow put me so often in rememberance of your departure.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Titus iii. 1 Pvt them in remembrance that they be subiect to the Principalities & powers.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. G1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) His presence I am resolued shall no more disquiet me, by hearing or remembrance of him.

1609 R. Hakluyt tr. Virginia richly Valued xxxv. 147 The substance of the words of the letter was..to put him in remembrance that he was a Christian.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 101 Yet it is honest..that remembrance be had rather of that which is good, than of the bad.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 693 Though [printed thongh] all Learning be not the Remembrance of what the Soul once before actually understood, in a Pre-existent State.

1740 tr. P. Coste in M. D. tr. Marquis d'Argens Jewish Spy IV. cliii. 263 Here are certain Thoughts not altogether useless for Man, tho' he has no sort of Remembrance that his Soul was employed about them so much as one Moment.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 252 What he views of beautiful or grand..Prompts with remembrance of a present God.

1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 231 Remembrance rises faint and dim Of sorrows suffer'd long ago.

1861 J. MacGregor Let. 11 July in F. Balfour Life & Lett. J. MacGregor (1912) iii. 38 Your note for the first time put me in remembrance that this was my natal day.

1902 H. James Wings of Dove I. xi. 247 ‘Is it the way she looks to him?’ she asked herself—the perversity being that she kept in remembrance that Kate was known to him.

1951 G. N. M. Tyrrell Homo Faber xvii. 176 He had, after all, the example of his master, Socrates, to keep him always in remembrance that men might receive intimations from daimonion ti side by side with the convictions they reached by following the argument (logos).

1990 D. Stein Casting Circle viii. 184 Many have remembrance of others in their lives, important to them now, who were present and important to them in past incarnations.

a. The memory (†or thought) which a person has of a thing or person; the act or fact of remembering a thing or person.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered

i-mindOE

minda1300

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?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. iii. l. 954 Myȝtest þou euere forȝeten..þe remembraunce [v.r. remenbraunce] of þilke day þat þou sey[e] þi two sones maked conseillers.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §157 The .iiij^e. poynt..is the sorweful remembrance of the good þ^t he hath left to doon here in erthe.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 78 Anguishe & calamyte,..wherof y^e remembraunce greued hym ryght sorowfully.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Rviii The remembraunce of theire poore indigent and begerlye olde age kylleth them vp.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 166 My loue, To Hermia..Seemes to me now as the remembrance of an idle gaude.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 69 These adde to his sin, and the rememberance of his sin..will adde to his torment.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 224 Yet had his mind thro' tedious absence lost The dear remembrance of his native coast.

1754 Connoisseur No. 28 (1755) 216 I happened to be present at his last moments; and the remembrance of him still dwells so strongly on my mind, that I see him, I hear him, in all the agonies of despair, starting, trembling, and uttering the most horrid execrations.

1792 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 519 Why does their sad remembrance haunt the mind?

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 229 Between him and the court was interposed the remembrance of one terrible event.

1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm ii. 31 The remembrance of Rebecca was so vivid that their sister Aurelia's letter was something of a shock to the quiet, elderly spinsters of the brick house.

1952 H. Miller Bks. in my Life iv. 97 The wound still lives, and with the pain of it comes the remembrance of what I was.

1999 R. I. Simon et al. Between Hope & Despair 1 Those of us who spend considerable time pursuing questions of the remembrance of specific acts of mass violence.

b. A recollection, a reminiscence; an act of remembering.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection > instance of

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a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 2565 Thanne shall thee come a remembraunce Of hir shappe and hir semblaunce.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 140 How sharp the point of this remembrance is.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 130 By our remembrances of daies forgon.

1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. xiv. 99 For a Remembrance, he made his Oblation with the two aforesaid Obelisks in the Temple of the Sun.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlix. 158 A faint remembrance of their ancestors still tormented the Romans.

1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. i Although the wild-flower on thy ruined wall..a sad remembrance bring.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III v, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 243/1 These obscure remembrances Stirred such harmony in Peter.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch VI. lxii. 371 But all the while a remembrance to which there had always clung a vague uneasiness would thrust itself on her attention ‘the remembrance of that day when she had found Will Ladislaw with Mrs. Lydgate’.

1909 T. W. Higginson Carlyle's Laugh xii. 160 My college remembrances of him are vivid and characteristic.

1959 M. Farber Naturalism & Subjectivism 224 The same problems occur for remembrances, phantasies, expectations, obscure presentations, thought-experiences of all kinds, and for affective and volitional experiences.

2000 J. Sallis Force of Imagination i. 37 It involves a remembrance of an old—even ancient—word.

c. The memory of a person who has died or a thing of the past surviving in the minds of others. Frequently in of blessed (good, etc.) remembrance. Now archaic.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [noun] > perpetuated memory

memoriala1382

memory?c1450

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?c1530 Let. Prester John f. 310^v My fadir of gude remembrance maist nobill.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Brief Descr. sig. ☛.ij^v Kyng Edward the vi., a Prince of blessed remembrance.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xvii. 14 I will vtterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen.

1698 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David (new ed.) cxii. 6 The sweet Remembrance [1696 Memorial] of the Just Shall flourish when he sleeps in Dust.

1812 R. Southey Omniana I. lxii. 110 He might have secured for himself a lasting and respectful remembrance.

1850 J. Gray Let. in E. Brace Life C. L. Brace (1894) iii. 84 The sweetness..and gentle submissiveness which made her sick chamber a place of blessed remembrance.

1856 J. Stevenson tr. Church Historians Eng. IV. 149 Patric, the tenth abbot of Melrose, of good remembrance, died, and was succeeded by Adam, the prior of the same place.

1912 Let. 20 Sept. in N. B. Levine Politics, Relig. & Love (1991) xi. 181 You earned a lasting remembrance in India's grateful heart for the interpretation you gave to the now famous paragraph 3 of the Government of India's dispatch of August last.

2002 J. M. Thomas in A. F. Carley et al. Surface Chem. & Catalysis ii. 10 The AEI Research and Development Centre (now of blessed remembrance) in Trafford Park, Manchester.

2006 J. T. Walker tr. Legend of Mar Qardagh i. 69 And it was consecrated toward the East, and pious men worthy of good remembrance made great expenditures upon it in the name of the blessed one.

d. In plural. Friendly greetings sent to a person. Cf. remember v.¹ 17. Now formal and somewhat archaic.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > remembrance or greetings sent

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1631 J. Shirley Schoole of Complement i. i. 6 Sir, I haue done your remembrances to Mistris Hilaria, and told her you should find her comming by and by.

1690 Let. 24 May in G. Disney Some Remarkable Passages (1692) 214 We all send our hearty Remembrances to you and yours.

1789 W. Cowper Let. 1 Dec. (1982) III. 321 With our joint affectionate remembrances to yourself and Mrs. Newton.

1804 in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 87 Kindest remembrances to all our good friends.

c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 528 He bid me also be sure and give his kindest remembrances to you.

1897 A. Beardsley Let. 13 July (1970) 346 Please thank Cecil Dayer for his kind remembrances and please give him mine.

1923 A. C. E. Allinson Children of Way 88 Here was a flute he had sent Quintus, ‘with an old neighbor's affectionate remembrances’.

1958 K. A. Porter Let. 1 Nov. in M. Busby & D. Heaberlin From Texas to World & Back (2001) 87 Please give my remembrances to all who were so merry with me there.

1986 H. Robertson Lily xxxiv. 268 I shall always remember with delight our visit together there—With kindest remembrances, believe me, as always, yours very sincerely. WL McK. King.

3. With possessive adjective: a person's memory or recollection; (in later use) a person's power of remembering (cf. sense 4a). Now archaic or U.S. regional (southern, chiefly in African-American usage).

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > of individual

memoryc1380

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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1008 Youre yonge child Custaunce Is now ful clene out of youre remembraunce.

?a1430 T. Hoccleve Mother of God l. 45 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 53 Ficche þat, lady, in thy remembraunce.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 80 Come to her remembraunce the grete iustyces..vnto her tolde.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) l. 167 Call to your remembraunce how that..Adam & Eue was dyffendyd fro y^e etinge of fruyte.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxv. 401 They must confesse themselves of all the sinnes they have committed, to their remembrance.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 44 To the best of my remembrance, he sate there four days together.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. x. 85 The obliging wife would banish from his remembrance the petulant mistress.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 336 Pour: that the draught may fillip my remembrance.

1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 170 But now is my remembrance weak with eld.

1926 E. S. Holmes Sci. Mind ii. iii. 167 Affirm, ‘This word blots from the book of my remembrance any sense of lack, limitation, want or fear of failure.’

1979 C. Carpenter Walton War 152 ‘The best I can find out, he has lost his remembrance.’ ‘Remembrance’ here carried a lot more meaning than memory would have. This man meant his uncle had lost his mind.

?1980 Transcript of Interview in L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States: Concordance (Microfiche) 0537/100 To my (nearest) remembrance.

2008 C. Delors Mistress of Revol. xxv. 120 My remembrance of Pierre-André was associated with the season of my life when I had been forced to forsake him and all of my hopes.

a. The faculty or power of memory; the ability to remember things or recall things to mind. Formerly also †personified. Now rare. Cf. sense 3.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 4b.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun]

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?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 13 (MED) It byhoueþ a leche to be of good remembraunce.

c1475 tr. Secreta Secret. (Tripolitanus abbrev.) (1977) 360 (MED) Suche wyne..makith a man to lese all remembraunce.

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 998 (MED) Vertew sent embassatours three, Reson, Discresion, & Good Remembraunse.

1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiii She was good in remembraunce & of holdyng memorye.

1538 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 133 I, Barbara Mason,..beyng..in hooll mynd and good remembrauns, make this my present testament.

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 112 The witte thereby is made more sharpe, and the remembrance quickened.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 237 This Lord of weake remembrance .

1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 52 The wittie excell in remembrance, the dull in memorie.

1786 T. Morell in tr. Seneca Epist. II. Annot. lxxxviii. 105 It happeneth for the most part, that men rely upon the trust of books and papers, and in the mean time omit the benefit of good remembrance.

1861 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 248/2 Acute present feeling, joined with good remembrance, cannot fail to secure the constant determination of the will in one direction.

1992 J. Gyatso (title) In the mirror of memory: reflections on mindfulness and remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.

b. That operation of the mind which is involved in recalling a thing or fact; recollection. Formerly frequently †personified, or †in figurative context.By some writers restricted to the involuntary operation of recalling something, and distinguished from deliberate recollection.

ΚΠ

a1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite (Tanner 346) (1878) l. 350 Arcite Annelida so sore Hath thyrled with the poynte of remembraunce [a1500 Harl. 7333 Rememberaunce].

a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 37 Than rudlie come Remembrance Ay rugging me withouttin rest.

1531 J. Vaus Rudimenta (new ed.) iv. sig. hh Verbis pertenyng to ramembrans or forȝettyng.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vi. 13 Vnkinde remembrance: thou, & endles night, Haue done me shame.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 952 Not for thy life, lest fierce remembrance wake My sudden rage.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xix. 111 The same Idea, when it again recurrs without the operation of the like Object on the external [printed eternal] Sensory, is Remembrance.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. i. 16 When the word perception is used properly..it is never applied to things past. And thus it is distinguished from remembrance.

1822 F. Beasley Search of Truth in Sci. of Human Mind iv. xi. 524 The power of memory performs two very distinct acts, remembrance, and reminiscence or recollection. By the one, we involuntarily call to mind what we had before known, and by the other, we voluntarily recall those ideas which were once conveyed into the mind; or what is the same thing, think anew of those things concerning which we had thought before.

1867 R. Martineau tr. H. Ewald Hist. Israel I. i. ii. 391 This story bears, it is true, unmistakable signs of good remembrance.

1903 W. W. Atkinson Memory Culture ix. 50 Remembrance is apparently automatic in its action, while recollection is an act of volition.

1973 M. S. Frings & R. L. Funk tr. M. F. Scheler Formalism in Ethics & Non-formal Ethics of Values ii. vi. 436 Re-recognition is not restricted to remembrance, still less to reproduction.

1993 J. E. Tollington Trad. & Innovation in Haggai & Zechariah 1–8 v. 191 The suggestion of any direct quotation by Haggai of Micah's words, either verbatim or distorted by poor remembrance, can be discounted immediately.

5. The period over which a memory of events extends. Also: the point at which a memory of events begins. Now literary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > period covered by

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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 25 Whosoeuer deny y^t it hath thus ben done in time past, yea within our owne remembrance, they impudently lie.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Memoria patrum, in the time and remembrance of our fathers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 112 Fro the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster.

1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 41 In latter times, within remembrance, when we had no Alliance with France, none in Denmark, none in Germany.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 204 Thee I have heard relating what was don Ere my remembrance .

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados x. 309 The largest that hath been taken in this Island, within my Remembrance, did not exceed four hundred Weight.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 219 I know but one other method.., which..has been practised successfully, more than once, in my remembrance.

1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) III. 229 There was a time, Sir, in my remembrance, and perhaps in yours, when follies of rank and fortune were as incommunicable as titles.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit vi. 71 I have had no parents these many years. Scarcely within my remembrance.

1892 S. R. Hole Mem. v. 65 Within my remembrance, great progress has been made in the quantity and quality of the music which we have in our homes.

1922 C. O'Riordan In London xxv. 201 Only once, within his remembrance, had he really wished to kill.

1965 M. Young Miss MacIntosh, My Darling lxxiv. 1071 The autumn leaves falling where there had never been a spring of any year within remembrance.

2005 S. Condray O Gracious One 211 For from time before remembrance, Yahweh brooded over the void.

II. Senses in which the idea of an external stimulus to memory or thought is stronger: cf. remember v.¹ II.

†a. A record, account, or narration. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > notes

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c1380 in Camden Misc. (1924) XIII. 2 (MED) A remembranse y-made that we lefte wt the scollemastyr of Ewuellme, ij cheuerlettis.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) 3 Esdras ii. 22 Be it soȝt in the bookis of thi fadris; and thou shalt finde in the remembrauncis [L. admonitionibus] writen of hem.

1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 307 He wol doo loke yf any remembraunce canne be founde therof.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xviii. sig. Jviii I can finde no notable remembrance, that it was used of auncient tyme.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 642 He saith hee found the remembrance of it in the Græcian books.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 650 This towne..requireth some large remembrance from mee.

1737 T. Hayter Exam. Bk. Quakers iii. 36 The Answers..are such as have been return'd..upon a Request made to them, to enquire in their respective Parishes, whether they found any Remembrance of the Prosections complain'd of by the Quakers.

b. spec. A note or entry serving as a record or reminder; a memorandum. Now historical. rare.

ΚΠ

1431 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1431 §27. m. 5 Make oute a remembrance under her seall..resityng þe issue þat is joyned.

a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 327 The seyd Styward seyde þat þe remembrances of sich libertes as perteyned to Cheylesmore weron yn the Tresory.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. K2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) I haue laden for your accoumpt..according to your remembrance sent vnto mee for the same,..seauen Buts of Secke.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 172 Set down vnder the hand of the sayd prince, in a priuat note-book of remembrances.

a1676 M. Hale Hist. Common Law (1713) i. 13 Those Proceedings and Remembrances..are..in the Tower, beginning..with the 20th Year of Edw. I.

1978 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 10 30 There were three prothonotaries, who as chief clerks of the Court of Common Pleas were responsible for..controlling the business of the court by making ‘rules’ to declare or plead or to enter judgment, and minuting the business in their dockets and remembrances.

†7. Mention, notice, record. to make remembrance: to relate, narrate. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning

mentionc1300

remembrancea1393

meaninga1400

mention-making1534

mentioning1565

commemoration1576

commenting1597

voicinga1626

memoration1627

citation1640

naming1677

observing1719

commentation1833

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 3392 (MED) As the bok makth remembrance, Alphonse was his propre name.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6050 (MED) Þe oþe is made & put in remembraunce.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 558 Quhen that he herd mak remembrance Off the perellys that passyt war.

a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2177 (MED) He was putte [from] his enheritaunce, Wherof be fore was made remembraunce.

†8.

a. The act of reminding a person or putting a person in mind of a thing. Cf. book of remembrance n. at Phrases 2. Obsolete. ring of remembrance: a device with rings used to prompt the memory (see quot. 1659). [after French souvenance (1611 in Cotgrave in this sense, who glosses it as ‘a Ring with many hoopes, whereof a man lets one hang downe when he would be put in mind of a thing’; 1603 in sense ‘ring given as a keepsake or souvenir’), transferred use of souvenance sovenance n.]

ΘΚΠ

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

remembrancea1393

refrication1583

rememoration1624

remembrancing1627

reminding1645

refreshment1680

remindal1774

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > other types of ring

kine-ringc1225

pontificala1500

hoop-ring1545

death's head1577

ring of remembrance1659

serjeant's ring1690

garter-ring1709

bath-ring1771

solitaire1832

regard ring1853

key ring1856

bodylet1870

portrait ring1877

tower-ring1877

whistle-ring1877

marquise1885

princess-ring1886

dinner ring1890

cluster ring1897

eternity ring1939

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 449 (MED) A solein tale..I schal telle in remembraunce Upon the sort of loves chaunce.

?1461 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 274 It is not for no lak of remembrans, for I sent to hym thryis [or] fowyr tymys ther-for.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. v. B It is..an offeringe of remembraunce, that remembreth synne.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 158 It serueth, namely, for a signe of rememberance to put vs in minde of our dutie.

1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxxiv, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) A ring of remembrance, viz. two or three interchain'd.

b. bill of remembrance: a royal letter of authority. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > authorization > a token or evidence of > written

form1297

commission1397

precept1397

warrant-dormant1423

bill of remembrance1481

warranta1513

warrantment1599

exequatur1788

brown-paper warrant1867

1481 in W. D. Macray Notes Munim. St. Mary Magdalen Coll. Oxf. (1882) 15 Dayly to atende tyll I myte haue T.S. at leysere and than breke y^e matere and schew to hym y^e byll of remembranse.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn placet, a bill of remembraunce to an Officer from the prince, a bill of processe.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 69 He gave him other possessions and rents and a bill of remembraunce to make him Lorde.

1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 58/1 The Evidence of all these things was left with Will. Cave the son of Thomas Cave Gentleman, by Sir William Filding befor the battail of Tewksbery, and a Bill of remembrance of the same after given to Ric. Cave.

c. clerk of the remembrance: = remembrancer n. 1a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > other English officials

wicknerc1000

purveyorc1425

remembrancer1431

Clerk of the Market1451

secondary1461

water bailiff1590

Master of the Jewel House1597

clerk of the remembrance1607

well-reeve?1648

stairer1695

bar-keeper1818

waste-inspector1898

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Kkk4^v/2 These [Remembrancers of the Exchequer] anno 37 Ed. 3. cap. 4. be called clerks of the Remembrance. [Hence in later dictionaries.]

a. An article given or taken to remind one person of another or (in later use) of a place or event; a keepsake, souvenir; a token.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > keepsake, souvenir

tokenc1385

remembrance1424

memory?c1425

memoranda1450

remembrancer1593

momento1600

relic1611

memorandum1679

memento1768

souvenir1776

keepsake1790

ricordo1821

a present from ——1853

1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 63 (MED) I wil þat Iohn Ondeley haf a coueryd pece of siluer..for a remembraunce of me.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 34 (MED) iij of my beste gownys..I wil William Baret..haue for a remembraunce to thinke vpon me.

a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 131 56 (MED) Geve me grace..To worchuppe the and that blyssed ladye, With the Remembrons of myne Abce.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Tii Do nat you bryng me some remembraunce or token from them.

1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) ii. sig. D3 Here's the sad remembrance of his life, Which for his sake I will for euer weare.

1724 in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 13 I desire your acceptance of a ring, a small remembrance of my father.

1790 Monthly Rev. Dec. 472 As a remembrance of this lady, he even carried about with him, and always used when alone, a desert-spoon that had belonged to her.

1845 C. Dickens Let. 2 Oct. (1977) IV. 396 I send you the claret jug. But for a mistake, you would have received the little remembrance almost immediately after my return from abroad.

1895 K. Marsden On Sledge & Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers (ed. 12) vi. 75 I had begged that our photographs might be taken later on, as a remembrance of this special meeting on behalf of the lepers.

1938 I. F. Marcosson Turbulent Years xviii. 450 The story is told that one Premier determined to defy precedent and keep a remembrance of his stay. He carried off the knob of the door leading to the Cabinet Room.

1971 S. Lehner Threepenny Christmas i. i. 11 (Nick takes off wig and hands the Paper Man a silver plate from the baby carriage.) Here, my man. Season's greetings and a small remembrance for letting me use your newsstand as a dressing room.

2002 H. G. Lewis Effective E-mail Marketing v. 86 Nothing is more delightful than to receive a remembrance you weren't expecting..a remembrance for no reason at all except a spontaneous feeling of affection.

b. A memorial or record of some fact, person, etc.; a biographical memoir.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun]

mind tokena1382

remembrancec1425

relic1624

denkmal1877

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 2195 (MED) He longe abood in lamentacioun, And dide make..A large toumbe for a remembraunce.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1456 Go nobill buk,..Now byd thi tym and be a remembrance.

1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Ai Here after foloweth a mornynge remembraunce had at the moneth mynde of the noble prynces Margarete.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. G His wordes and counsels remayne for a remembraunce.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3 On his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord.

1598 R. Barnfield Poems in Encomion Lady Pecunia sig. E2^v A Remembrance of some English Poets.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 243 That figure which is engrauen at Rome in a marble piller being a remembrance of some Triumphe.

1661 E. Leigh Choice Observ. Kings Eng. 183 She raigned five years, and four moneths, wanting two dayes only. She lieth buried in Winchester without any Monument or remembrance at all.

1784 S. Glasse Magistrate’s Assistant 254 Lord Coke says, that a record is a memorial or remembrance in rolls of parchment.

1821 ‘B. Cornwall’ Rape Proserpine in Marcian Colonna & Other Poems (new ed.) 168 And is this fountain left alone For a sad remembrance.

1864 S. Taylor tr. J. P. Lange Life Lord Jesus Christ I. ii. ii. 325 It would be but natural that she should have preserved a written remembrance of what occurred in the house of Zachariah.

1902 R. N. Bain Peter III iv. 47 A lasting remembrance of his reign engraved in the hearts of his subjects would be far more grateful to him than the erection of golden statues.

1991 M. Thompson Leatherfolk 233 (heading) A view from a sling by Geoff Mains with a remembrance by the editor.

†c. A heraldic device. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > emblem or device

signc1300

devicea1375

remembrancea1470

posya1565

ensign1579

impresaa1586

imprese1588

brief1594

impressa1616

emblem1616

impressa1628

notado1647

impressa1656

blazoning1828

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 523 Sir Trystramys..commaunded Governayle, hys servaunte, to ordayne hym a blacke shylde with none other remembraunce therein.

†d. A memorial inscription. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > for specific occasion or purpose

His Majesty's Speech1583

New Year1595

panegyry1602

panegyric1603

remembrancea1616

valediction1619

panegyris1646

areopagitic1649

Hesped1650

allocution1689

maiden speech1702

Speech from the Throne1751

patter1772

inaugural1832

acceptance speech1855

oraison funèbre1856

keynote speech1863

keynote address1891

valedictory1892

keynote1896

pep speech1912

pep talk1913

society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > other types of inscription

epitaph1387

elogy1605

remembrancea1616

elogiuma1699

manusculpta1859

laudation1868

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 229 Lay these bones in an vnworthy Vrne, Tomblesse, with no remembrance ouer them.

†10.

a. A verbal reminder; a remark reminding a person of a thing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > as injunction or warning

mingingOE

memento1580

memorandum1586

remembrance1600

monitor1623

monitive1638

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. ii. 114 I do commit into your hand, Th'vnstained sword..With this remembrance, that you vse the same [etc.] .

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate sig. B1 Breife Remembrances touching the particular Instruments for the Svrgions Chest.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. v. §29. 264 But let the understanding Reader, take with him three or four short remembrances.

b. A reminder given by some thing or fact; a thing or fact serving to remind a person of something. Obsolete.In quot. 1606: a reminder or imitation of something similar elsewhere.

ΘΚΠ

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

monishment1483

rememberera1542

remembrancer1556

memorandum1583

minding1601

remembrance1606

rememorative1613

reminder1614

rememoration1654

monit1692

flapper1726

remembrancing1800

tickler1808

refresher1809

reminding1865

1606 R. Peterson tr. G. Botero Treat. Magnificencie Cities i. x. 20 And as Lakes are certaine seuerall remembrances of the bosomes of the Gulphes of the Seas, formed and made by nature.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. ii, in Wks. I. 542 I'll be bold to leaue this rope with you, sir, for a remembrance .

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 107 The Orange trees..are greene in winter, giuing at that dead time a pleasant remembrance of Sommer.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 21 To knock their head against that of the doore, for a remembrance, that they were not to passe the threshold.

1739 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 174 I was not suffered to conclude my subject; a good remembrance that I should, if possible, declare, at every time, the whole counsel of God.

1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands xii. 271 He took a piece of line, which he had brought with him for the purpose of making remarks, and tied a knot thereon, as a remembrance of the circumstance.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 15 What..[are] dressing and undressing but stinging remembrances of the privileged nakedness of the savage?

Phrases

P1.

†a. in (into, rarely for) remembrance, as a memorial or record; to put in remembrance, to put on record. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > [verb (transitive)]

record1340

minda1382

remembera1382

to put in remembrancea1393

denotate1599

denote1612

chronologizec1616

log1823

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > as a memorial or record [phrase]

in (into, rarely for) remembrancea1393

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2895 (MED) Cambises..a jugge laweles He fond, and into remembrance He dede upon him such vengance.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 562 (MED) Thei for evere in remembrance Made a figure in resemblance Of him.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 24 Of which were fourmed lettres for to write..in remembraunce perpetual þe thinges that [etc.].

a1500 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 614 To put his title in remembraunce, Whiche that he hath to Inglond and to Fraunce.

1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xix By token of a fayre stone layde for remembraunce.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. xiii. 2 I will destroye the names of Idols out off the londe: so that they shal nomore be put in remembraunce.

1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 442 in Wks. (1931) I. 158 The ordour and the circumstance Wer lang to put in remembrance.

b. in (†the) remembrance of, in memory of, as a memorial to or commemoration of.

ΘΚΠ

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

(to be) in memoryc1385

in memory ofc1385

in (the) remembrance ofa1400

in (the) memorial of1605

monument1613

to the memory of1653

a1400 Prose Life Christ (Pepys) (1922) 75 (MED) For þi schal hir dede be spoken of in þe ewandelye ouere al þe werlde, in remebraunce [read remembraunce] of me.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 153 Of þe scalpe of þe heued he gers make him a coppe, and þeroff he drinkez..in remembraunce of his fader.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F vij It is sayd that there is as yet in the same place a pytte in mynde and remenbraunce of the sayd myracle.

a1525 Talis Fyve Bestes l. 41, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 128 He..in Rememberans evir' of þar' deidis..straik of baith þair heidis.

1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. A.iiii^v Do ye thys in the remembrance of me.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 105 That the..life of the people of Arpines, should be spared in the remembraunce of Tullie.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 108 Rew euen for ruth heere shortly shall be seene, In the remembrance of a weeping Queene.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xiii. 63 The day in remembrance thereof [was] yeerely solemnized with fasting the Euen.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 382 In remembrance of so brave a Deed, A Tomb, and Fun'ral Honours I decreed.

1715 P. Browne (title) An answer to a right reverend prelate's defence of eating & drinking in remembrance of the dead.

?1782 J. Hawkins Ess. Law Celibacy 146 A feast instituted in remembrance of this miracle is held forth urbi et orbi, that is, ordered to be kept in the divine office over the whole Catholic Church.

1805 Panoplist June 45/1 He therefore instituted a particular ordinance to be the representation and memorial of his death; and he commanded, that this should be frequently observed and attended in remembrance of him.

1852 A. Gray Shades of Hamlet 56 (heading) In remembrance of the Rev. Dr. Cochrane, Formerly Vice-President of King's College, Windsor.

1899 A. H. Hore Eighteen Cent. Orthodox Greek Church xi. 402 Olga, in remembrance of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine, changed her name for that of his mother Helena.

1933 H. Danby tr. Mishnah 796 The festival kept on Adar 14 (or 15) in remembrance of the salvation of the Jews in Persia, as recorded in the book of Esther.

1975 R. A. Potter Eng. Morality Play ii. 54 Everyman is to scourge himself, in remembrance of Christ's sacrifice and in petition for God's mercy.

2008 T. Rist Revenge Trag. & Drama of Commemoration in Reforming Eng. iii. 100 Instead, there is a series of alternative spectacles; some of them are in remembrance of the dead, but rather than valuing remembrance, they tend to detract from it.

P2.

book of remembrance n. (a) a memorandum book, a record, spec. one said to be kept by God (in later use understood with the sense of branch I.); (b) a commemorative book listing the names of the dead, esp. fallen soldiers; (c) a book which is signed by members of the public in honour of a person who has died.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > other types of journal

book of remembrance1465

commentary1531

notebook1565

tablebook1582

remembrance booka1627

stam-book1662

memorandum book1683

memorandum paper1710

noctuary1714

workbook1766

memorandum tablet1774

journalet1776

birthday book1806

tickler1808

remembrancer1843

war diary1917

worksheet1925

pillow book1928

memory board1955

Daytimer1960

1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 307 Wyllyam Worceter had a boke of remembraunce of recaytys that hath be recevyd by Ser John Fastolf.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Memorialis liber, a booke of remembrance.

1611 Bible (King James) Mal. iii. 16 The Lord hearkened and heard it, & a booke of remembrance was written before him.

1703 Law of Errors & Writs of Errors iii. 11 Go with it to the Clerk of the Errors, who will take out the Judgment with the Debt and Costs of Suit, in his Book of remembrance for Bail.

1867 W. S. Plumer Rock of our Salvation xix. 363 Then, too, will be opened the book of remembrance. Its record will be full, minute, infallible.

1918 Times 4 Nov. 5 To place in the drawing hall a..memorial commemorating the names of all Old boys who have laid down their lives for their country; also to publish a ‘book of remembrance’.

1972 J. Ferguson Place of Suffering iv. 60 The Lord has his own book of remembrance.

1981 ABC News Transcripts: World News Tonight (Nexis) 7 Oct. People went to the Egyptian embassy and signed the book of remembrance for a man whose departure makes many Israelis nervous.

1995 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 4/7 There is also a plan to buy a new case for the Book of Remembrance at the Korean war memorial in St Paul's.

2009 News of World (Nexis) 5 Apr. 15 On Friday I signed the book of remembrance to the victims of last week's North Sea tragedy.

day of remembrance n. a day dedicated to remembering the dead or marking an anniversary; cf. Remembrance Day n. at Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Luke ii. 14 To keep a yearly day of remembrance.

1707 tr. H. Sibersma Glory of God at Danube 72 We also, in our days keep a day of Remembrance for the raising the Siege of Leyden.

1875 Times 29 Oct. 7 The North was equally careful to respect the Southern dead, gathering the bones of those slain on both sides into common cemeteries, and every year setting apart for both a common day of remembrance.

1950 M. Hankey Politics, Trials & Errors viii. 145 Perhaps the amnesty day might fall on the same day as the old Armistice Day. But instead of it being a Day of Remembrance it would be a Day of Oblivion.

1997 Granta Spring 57 Yom Kippur is also a day of remembrance.

garden of remembrance n. a garden commemorating the dead, esp. those killed in the world wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45 or those who have been cremated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > other types of memorial

shield1817

death-mask1838

headboard1895

haniwa1931

garden of remembrance1954

1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 46 They'll catch me coming..Across the Garden of Remembrance? No, That would be blasphemy.

1959 Listener 22 Jan. 166/1 Here is a statue of Byron... Here are cenotaphs commemorating other philhellenes of several nations... The visit to what is now a garden of remembrance was a profoundly moving experience.

1973 J. Rossiter Manipulators iv. 48 With any luck..I'll find the bastard dead and scattered over a garden of remembrance.

2003 K. Worpole Last Landscapes viii. 184/2 Many crematoria are set within their own grounds, consisting of lawns, walkways and gardens of remembrance.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

remembrance banquet n.

ΚΠ

1930 R. Graves Ten Poems More 9 A fresh remembrance-banquet to forestall The Knight turned hermit.

2002 Cambr. Reporter (Nexis) 8 Nov. a27 Tomorrow—remembrance banquet at Jacob Hespeler Hall, cocktails 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m.

remembrance ceremony n.

ΚΠ

1919 H. M. Krammer With Seeing Eyes xvi. 264 The Medical Service officers..come to participate in this Remembrance ceremony.

2009 San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun (Nexis) 12 Mar. The Relay For Life will hold a remembrance ceremony for those who have died from cancer.

remembrance wreath n.

ΚΠ

1878 S.Neil in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream Notes 142 Turning over..the compliment paid to himself to a rival, and hanging it like a remembrance-wreath upon his tomb.

1922 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 13 Nov. 1/4 Remembrance wreath laid on tomb of unknown soldier at Arlington by President.

2006 Mt. Druitt—St. Marys Standard (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 5 Children participated in activities such as making Anzac cookies and remembrance wreaths.

C2.

remembrance book n. = book of remembrance n. at Phrases 2.

ΚΠ

a1627 W. Sclater Brief Comm. Malachy (1650) 186 He hath also, then, his remembrance-book, his register, for the ungodly.

1762 J. Hart Hymns (ed. 2) 172 In his Remembrance-Book The Saviour sets them down.

1850 J. Turnley Popery in Power 296 The great remembrance-book will then be oped, And God will count his dazzling jewels forth Before assembled worlds.

1922 Times 2 Oct. 18 In memory of six hundred officers and men of High Wycombe who fell in the war,..a vellum Remembrance Book containing their names is to be placed in the Parish Church.

1981 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 8 Oct. The Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, which was opened to the public Wednesday for those who wanted to sign their names in a remembrance book for Sadat.

1983 F. Graham Bob Pierce viii. 131 But remember: God has not forgotten them. He has His remembrance book.

2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 Nov. a6 The remembrance book is placed on an altar, joining six other books listing the names of Canada's more than 116,000 war dead.

2009 Metro (Nexis) 27 Mar. 9 Fans of Jade Goody have started signing a remembrance book opened ahead of her funeral next week.

Remembrance Day n. a day dedicated to remembering the dead or marking an anniversary; spec. that kept in remembrance of those killed in the world wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45, now the Sunday nearest to 11 November and since 1945 combined with Armistice Day.

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the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc.

day of truce1486

Evil May Dayc1590

Bonfire Night1661

Pope Day1769

Pope Night1773

the Fourth (of July)1779

Town Taking Day1788

Independence Day1791

Independent Day1803

Guy Fawkes day1825

Bastille Day1837

Trafalgar Day1837

Turkey Day1870

Canada Day1882

Juneteenth1890

flag-day1894

Patriots' Day1894

Remembrance Day1895

twelfth1896

Quatorze Juillet1899

quatorze1915

Armistice Day1918

Poppy Day1921

Remembrance Sunday1925

VJ-day1944

Commonwealth Day1958

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

minda1325

obsequyc1385

wreath-laying1888

Remembrance Day1895

Veterans Day1912

silence1919

Poppy Day1921

Remembrance Sunday1925

moment of silence1942

1895 T. Hardy in Harper's Mag. Sept. 588/1 ‘The place seems gay,’ said Sue. ‘Why—it is Remembrance day!’

1918 Times 8 July 5/4 Remembrance Day should be national in the highest and noblest sense.

1956 B. Paulu Brit. Broadcasting x. 265 The Remembrance Day (the Sunday before November 11) ceremonies at the Cenotaph.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) v. 109 I see that fêtes, coffee morning and bring-and-buy sales, bridge afternoons and bazaars, raffles and Remembrance Day services, charity events of every conceivable hue, have been held beneath the British flag from Toronto to Tehran.

Remembrance service n. a religious service remembering the dead or marking an anniversary, spec. one held on Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest to 11 November.

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1918 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader 26 May 10/5 A ‘Remembrance Service’ for the 250 young men of the ‘Y’ now in service will be held at the building at 3:30 today.

1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin i. 312 You have an invitation. It's the Remembrance Service.

2003 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Nov. 15 The village's Remembrance Service will take place tomorrow. The parade will leave the Royal British Legion club.

Remembrance Sunday n. Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest to 11 November.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc.

day of truce1486

Evil May Dayc1590

Bonfire Night1661

Pope Day1769

Pope Night1773

the Fourth (of July)1779

Town Taking Day1788

Independence Day1791

Independent Day1803

Guy Fawkes day1825

Bastille Day1837

Trafalgar Day1837

Turkey Day1870

Canada Day1882

Juneteenth1890

flag-day1894

Patriots' Day1894

Remembrance Day1895

twelfth1896

Quatorze Juillet1899

quatorze1915

Armistice Day1918

Poppy Day1921

Remembrance Sunday1925

VJ-day1944

Commonwealth Day1958

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

minda1325

obsequyc1385

wreath-laying1888

Remembrance Day1895

Veterans Day1912

silence1919

Poppy Day1921

Remembrance Sunday1925

moment of silence1942

1925 Times 29 Aug. 7/3 A view to establishing the Sunday before Armistice Day each year as a permanent Remembrance Sunday..to be recognized in all places of worship, when the alms would be given to the Appeal Fund.

1942 C. Milburn Diary 8 Nov. (1979) 157 Remembrance Sunday, and great news today! American troops have landed in North Africa.

2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 153 I telling you, I was out of every ceremony; every Bank Holiday, Remembrance Sunday, Christmas the whole lot. Me and Uncle Colin, cheeks like hamsters, blowing away on our trumpets.

Remembrancetide n. the period immediately preceding Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest to 11 November, considered as part of the liturgical year.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Remembrancetide > [noun]

Remembrancetide1952

1952 Times 4 Nov. 8/3 (heading) Remembrancetide at Westminster. The Empire Field of Remembrance in the churchyard of St. Margaret's, Westminster, will be dedicated on Thursday at noon.

1977 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 14 The 20th century has seen the creation of new commemorative rituals—and those of Remembrancetide are not the only ones.

2005 Church Times 18 Nov. 27/2 The horrors of war seem far closer to our everyday lives this year, bringing a far more insistent television focus on Remembrancetide than usual.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	remembrance
释义	remembrancen. Brit. /rᵻˈmɛmbr(ə)ns/, U.S. /rəˈmɛmbrəns/, /riˈmɛmbrəns/ Forms: Middle English rememberauns, Middle English rememberavns, Middle English rememberawns, Middle English remembranse, Middle English remembraunse, Middle English remembrawnce, Middle English remembrons, Middle English remenbrans, Middle English–1500s remembrans, Middle English–1500s remembrauns, Middle English–1600s rememberaunce, Middle English–1600s remembraunce, Middle English–1600s remenbraunce, Middle English– rememberance, Middle English– remembrance, late Middle English rebembraunce (probably transmission error), late Middle English remberaunce (transmission error), late Middle English rembrance (transmission error), late Middle English remeberance (transmission error), late Middle English rememberowns, late Middle English rememburrans (in a late copy), late Middle English remememberance (transmission error), 1500s rememberans, 1500s remembraunche, 1500s remembreaunce, 1500s remembruance (transmission error); also Scottish pre-1700 ramemberance, pre-1700 ramembrans, pre-1700 rememberance, pre-1700 rememberans, pre-1700 rememberaunce, pre-1700 rememberence, pre-1700 remembirance, pre-1700 remembrance, pre-1700 remembrans, pre-1700 remembranse, pre-1700 remembraunce, pre-1700 remenbrance, pre-1700 remimberance, pre-1700 remmenbrance. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French remembrance ; remember v.¹, -ance suffix. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman remembraunce, remenbrance, remenbraunce, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French remembrance (French remembrance (now archaic or literary)) awareness, consciousness (c1100 in Old French), memory, recollection (early 12th cent.), mention, notice, record (second half of the 12th cent., frequently in faire remembrance : see note), (with possessive pronoun) a person's memory (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), official record (end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), memorial (of a person, thing, or fact) (c1327), mental image (first half of the 14th cent.), formal or public memory or commemoration of a dead person (1415 or earlier), keepsake, souvenir (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: a1444; < remembrer remember v.¹ + -ance , -aunce -ance suffix), and partly (in later use) < remember v.¹+ -ance suffix. Compare Old Occitan remembransa (c1200), Catalan remembrança (12th cent.), Spanish remembranza (1230), Portuguese relembrança , (now archaic or literary) remembrança (both 14th cent.), Italian rimembranza (a1301; now literary); also post-classical Latin remembrantia (1415, 1431 in British sources). Compare earlier memory n. and later commemoration n., memorial n., with which the word shows semantic overlap.With to have (or keep) in remembrance at sense 1a compare Anglo-Norman aver en remembrance , Old French, Middle French avoir en remembrance to bear in mind, remember (early 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman). With to bring to remembrance at sense 1a, to put (a person) in remembrance of at sense 1b compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French mettre en remembrance (end of the 13th cent. or earlier). With to make remembrance at sense 7 compare Middle French faire remembrance (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French). With book of remembrance n. at Phrases 2 compare post-classical Latin liber memorialis (Vetus Latina, originally in specific use with reference to such a book said to be kept by God). In clerk of the remembrance at sense 8c after Anglo-Norman clerc de la remembrancie (1363 in the Act of Parliament mentioned in quot. 1607, 37 Edw. III c. 4). I. Senses in which the idea of an external stimulus to memory or thought is weak: cf. remember v.¹ I.** 1. Memory or recollection, or, in early use, †thought, in relation to a particular object, fact, etc. a. Without dependent phrase or clause. Esp. in phrases to have (or keep) in remembrance, to bring to remembrance. See also to call to remembrance at call v. Phrases 3a. ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 5288 (MED) Þer was noble contenaunce In bataile of remembraunce. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 69 (MED) He schal drawe into remembrance The fortune of this worldes chance. a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 6926 Whoso hadde sene hys cuntenaunse, Wolde euer had hym in remembraunse. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 49 The moste remembraunce that I shall haue shall be vpon yow and on yowre nedes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 351 Here is to be called to remembraunce what I sayd afore of quel. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. xii. 42 They..besought God, that the fawte..might be put out of remembraunce. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B1v I cannot call your name to remembrance. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋7 He hath for euer bound the Church vnto him, in a debt of speciall remembrance. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 704 Worthiest to be all Had in remembrance alwayes with delight. View more context for this quotation 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 501 This ever grateful in remembrance bear. 1826 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (1830) 5 Secured to remembrance by the pencil. 1854 T. Pearson Infidelity Introd. p. vii We are not so moodishly disposed as to call to remembrance the former days and say that they were better than the present. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 231 Look that..deep-laid in steady remembrance These our words grow greenly. 1918 A. E. H. Barr Paper Cap vi. 127 When he called to remembrance the events between the rejection of the first Reform Bill and its present struggle, he was really amazed that people could think or talk of any other thing. 1955 R. Humphries tr. Ovid Metamorphoses iv. 86 And you, O tree, now shading The body of one, and very soon to shadow The bodies of two, keep in remembrance always The sign of our death, the dark and mournful color. 1982 F. Chenderlin Do this as my Memorial ii. iii. 117 The latter, the sin offering, is not meant to bring sin to remembrance except as the cause of the situation. 2003 R. Hardy Sammy: Women Troubles xi. 154 She closed her eyes in remembrance and Marni quietly shed tears. b. With of, †infinitive, or object clause. Esp. in phrases to have remembrance of, † to put (a person) in remembrance of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection minOE thoughtc1175 memorya1275 minninga1325 bethinking1340 record1340 recording1340 remembrancec1350 memoriala1382 rememberinga1382 minsing?a1400 rememorancea1438 mindingc1449 remembrancingc1449 rememorationc1449 resouvenancec1450 umbethinkingc1450 sovenance1477 memoration1562 reminiscence1589 recollecting1604 rememorating1606 recollection1633 evocation1646 recall1651 recordancy1654 anamnesis1656 membrance1827 reliving1919 the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection > of something particular remembrancec1350 recordationc1426 reflection1567 c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 86 (MED) Þe folk of þe werlde haþ no remembraunce of þe holy þat han ben. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 188 This maketh Emelye haue remembrance To doon honour to May. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 166 Þei will maken hire ydoles or an ymage of ony of hire frendes for to haue remembrance of hym [?a1425 Egerton to hafe þam in mynde euermare]. 1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 128 This myght..put hym in remembrauns what tyme he hath lost. a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 6491 (MED) Suche a traytowre shulde dye ofte, Þat myghte ofte haue remembraunce [a1450 Univ. Oxf. remenbrans] Off hys fals and vn-trewe gouernaunce. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ix. f. 43 Yow put me so often in rememberance of your departure. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Titus iii. 1 Pvt them in remembrance that they be subiect to the Principalities & powers. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. G1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) His presence I am resolued shall no more disquiet me, by hearing or remembrance of him. 1609 R. Hakluyt tr. Virginia richly Valued xxxv. 147 The substance of the words of the letter was..to put him in remembrance that he was a Christian. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 101 Yet it is honest..that remembrance be had rather of that which is good, than of the bad. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 693 Though [printed thongh] all Learning be not the Remembrance of what the Soul once before actually understood, in a Pre-existent State. 1740 tr. P. Coste in M. D. tr. Marquis d'Argens Jewish Spy IV. cliii. 263 Here are certain Thoughts not altogether useless for Man, tho' he has no sort of Remembrance that his Soul was employed about them so much as one Moment. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 252 What he views of beautiful or grand..Prompts with remembrance of a present God. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 231 Remembrance rises faint and dim Of sorrows suffer'd long ago. 1861 J. MacGregor Let. 11 July in F. Balfour Life & Lett. J. MacGregor (1912) iii. 38 Your note for the first time put me in remembrance that this was my natal day. 1902 H. James Wings of Dove I. xi. 247 ‘Is it the way she looks to him?’ she asked herself—the perversity being that she kept in remembrance that Kate was known to him. 1951 G. N. M. Tyrrell Homo Faber xvii. 176 He had, after all, the example of his master, Socrates, to keep him always in remembrance that men might receive intimations from daimonion ti side by side with the convictions they reached by following the argument (logos). 1990 D. Stein Casting Circle viii. 184 Many have remembrance of others in their lives, important to them now, who were present and important to them in past incarnations. 2. a. The memory (†or thought) which a person has of a thing or person; the act or fact of remembering a thing or person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered i-mindOE minda1300 remembrance?c1400 membrance1650 recollection1652 reminiscence1750 souvenir1775 memento1796 memory1801 remembery1882 ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. iii. l. 954 Myȝtest þou euere forȝeten..þe remembraunce [v.r. remenbraunce] of þilke day þat þou sey[e] þi two sones maked conseillers. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §157 The .iiij^e. poynt..is the sorweful remembrance of the good þ^t he hath left to doon here in erthe. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 78 Anguishe & calamyte,..wherof y^e remembraunce greued hym ryght sorowfully. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Rviii The remembraunce of theire poore indigent and begerlye olde age kylleth them vp. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 166 My loue, To Hermia..Seemes to me now as the remembrance of an idle gaude. View more context for this quotation 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 69 These adde to his sin, and the rememberance of his sin..will adde to his torment. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 224 Yet had his mind thro' tedious absence lost The dear remembrance of his native coast. 1754 Connoisseur No. 28 (1755) 216 I happened to be present at his last moments; and the remembrance of him still dwells so strongly on my mind, that I see him, I hear him, in all the agonies of despair, starting, trembling, and uttering the most horrid execrations. 1792 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 519 Why does their sad remembrance haunt the mind? 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 229 Between him and the court was interposed the remembrance of one terrible event. 1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm ii. 31 The remembrance of Rebecca was so vivid that their sister Aurelia's letter was something of a shock to the quiet, elderly spinsters of the brick house. 1952 H. Miller Bks. in my Life iv. 97 The wound still lives, and with the pain of it comes the remembrance of what I was. 1999 R. I. Simon et al. Between Hope & Despair 1 Those of us who spend considerable time pursuing questions of the remembrance of specific acts of mass violence. b. A recollection, a reminiscence; an act of remembering. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection > instance of revocation1574 rememoration1597 recollecting1604 remembrancea1616 recollection1633 remembering1673 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 2565 Thanne shall thee come a remembraunce Of hir shappe and hir semblaunce. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 140 How sharp the point of this remembrance is. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 130 By our remembrances of daies forgon. View more context for this quotation 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. xiv. 99 For a Remembrance, he made his Oblation with the two aforesaid Obelisks in the Temple of the Sun. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlix. 158 A faint remembrance of their ancestors still tormented the Romans. 1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. i Although the wild-flower on thy ruined wall..a sad remembrance bring. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III v, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 243/1 These obscure remembrances Stirred such harmony in Peter. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch VI. lxii. 371 But all the while a remembrance to which there had always clung a vague uneasiness would thrust itself on her attention ‘the remembrance of that day when she had found Will Ladislaw with Mrs. Lydgate’. 1909 T. W. Higginson Carlyle's Laugh xii. 160 My college remembrances of him are vivid and characteristic. 1959 M. Farber Naturalism & Subjectivism 224 The same problems occur for remembrances, phantasies, expectations, obscure presentations, thought-experiences of all kinds, and for affective and volitional experiences. 2000 J. Sallis Force of Imagination i. 37 It involves a remembrance of an old—even ancient—word. c. The memory of a person who has died or a thing of the past surviving in the minds of others. Frequently in of blessed (good, etc.) remembrance. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [noun] > perpetuated memory memoriala1382 memory?c1450 rememoryc1475 remembrance?c1530 ?c1530 Let. Prester John f. 310^v My fadir of gude remembrance maist nobill. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Brief Descr. sig. ☛.ij^v Kyng Edward the vi., a Prince of blessed remembrance. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xvii. 14 I will vtterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen. View more context for this quotation 1698 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David (new ed.) cxii. 6 The sweet Remembrance [1696 Memorial] of the Just Shall flourish when he sleeps in Dust. 1812 R. Southey Omniana I. lxii. 110 He might have secured for himself a lasting and respectful remembrance. 1850 J. Gray Let. in E. Brace Life C. L. Brace (1894) iii. 84 The sweetness..and gentle submissiveness which made her sick chamber a place of blessed remembrance. 1856 J. Stevenson tr. Church Historians Eng. IV. 149 Patric, the tenth abbot of Melrose, of good remembrance, died, and was succeeded by Adam, the prior of the same place. 1912 Let. 20 Sept. in N. B. Levine Politics, Relig. & Love (1991) xi. 181 You earned a lasting remembrance in India's grateful heart for the interpretation you gave to the now famous paragraph 3 of the Government of India's dispatch of August last. 2002 J. M. Thomas in A. F. Carley et al. Surface Chem. & Catalysis ii. 10 The AEI Research and Development Centre (now of blessed remembrance) in Trafford Park, Manchester. 2006 J. T. Walker tr. Legend of Mar Qardagh i. 69 And it was consecrated toward the East, and pious men worthy of good remembrance made great expenditures upon it in the name of the blessed one. d. In plural. Friendly greetings sent to a person. Cf. remember v.¹ 17. Now formal and somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > remembrance or greetings sent recommendation1427 commend1488 commendation1529 complement1578 recado1615 remembrances1631 compliment1733 1631 J. Shirley Schoole of Complement i. i. 6 Sir, I haue done your remembrances to Mistris Hilaria, and told her you should find her comming by and by. 1690 Let. 24 May in G. Disney Some Remarkable Passages (1692) 214 We all send our hearty Remembrances to you and yours. 1789 W. Cowper Let. 1 Dec. (1982) III. 321 With our joint affectionate remembrances to yourself and Mrs. Newton. 1804 in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 87 Kindest remembrances to all our good friends. c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 528 He bid me also be sure and give his kindest remembrances to you. 1897 A. Beardsley Let. 13 July (1970) 346 Please thank Cecil Dayer for his kind remembrances and please give him mine. 1923 A. C. E. Allinson Children of Way 88 Here was a flute he had sent Quintus, ‘with an old neighbor's affectionate remembrances’. 1958 K. A. Porter Let. 1 Nov. in M. Busby & D. Heaberlin From Texas to World & Back (2001) 87 Please give my remembrances to all who were so merry with me there. 1986 H. Robertson Lily xxxiv. 268 I shall always remember with delight our visit together there—With kindest remembrances, believe me, as always, yours very sincerely. WL McK. King. 3. With possessive adjective: a person's memory or recollection; (in later use) a person's power of remembering (cf. sense 4a). Now archaic or U.S. regional (southern, chiefly in African-American usage). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > of individual memoryc1380 memoriala1393 remembrancec1405 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1008 Youre yonge child Custaunce Is now ful clene out of youre remembraunce. ?a1430 T. Hoccleve Mother of God l. 45 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 53 Ficche þat, lady, in thy remembraunce. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 80 Come to her remembraunce the grete iustyces..vnto her tolde. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) l. 167 Call to your remembraunce how that..Adam & Eue was dyffendyd fro y^e etinge of fruyte. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxv. 401 They must confesse themselves of all the sinnes they have committed, to their remembrance. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 44 To the best of my remembrance, he sate there four days together. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. x. 85 The obliging wife would banish from his remembrance the petulant mistress. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 336 Pour: that the draught may fillip my remembrance. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 170 But now is my remembrance weak with eld. 1926 E. S. Holmes Sci. Mind ii. iii. 167 Affirm, ‘This word blots from the book of my remembrance any sense of lack, limitation, want or fear of failure.’ 1979 C. Carpenter Walton War 152 ‘The best I can find out, he has lost his remembrance.’ ‘Remembrance’ here carried a lot more meaning than memory would have. This man meant his uncle had lost his mind. ?1980 Transcript of Interview in L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States: Concordance (Microfiche) 0537/100 To my (nearest) remembrance. 2008 C. Delors Mistress of Revol. xxv. 120 My remembrance of Pierre-André was associated with the season of my life when I had been forced to forsake him and all of my hopes. 4. a. The faculty or power of memory; the ability to remember things or recall things to mind. Formerly also †personified. Now rare. Cf. sense 3.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] i-mindOE mindc1175 imagination1340 memoriala1393 memorya1393 recordationa1398 remembrance?c1425 recollection1734 memory box1832 remembery1882 mnemotechnic1922 memory bank1952 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 13 (MED) It byhoueþ a leche to be of good remembraunce. c1475 tr. Secreta Secret. (Tripolitanus abbrev.) (1977) 360 (MED) Suche wyne..makith a man to lese all remembraunce. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 998 (MED) Vertew sent embassatours three, Reson, Discresion, & Good Remembraunse. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiii She was good in remembraunce & of holdyng memorye. 1538 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 133 I, Barbara Mason,..beyng..in hooll mynd and good remembrauns, make this my present testament. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 112 The witte thereby is made more sharpe, and the remembrance quickened. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 237 This Lord of weake remembrance . View more context for this quotation 1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 52 The wittie excell in remembrance, the dull in memorie. 1786 T. Morell in tr. Seneca Epist. II. Annot. lxxxviii. 105 It happeneth for the most part, that men rely upon the trust of books and papers, and in the mean time omit the benefit of good remembrance. 1861 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 248/2 Acute present feeling, joined with good remembrance, cannot fail to secure the constant determination of the will in one direction. 1992 J. Gyatso (title) In the mirror of memory: reflections on mindfulness and remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. b. That operation of the mind which is involved in recalling a thing or fact; recollection. Formerly frequently †personified, or †in figurative context.By some writers restricted to the involuntary operation of recalling something, and distinguished from deliberate recollection. ΚΠ a1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite (Tanner 346) (1878) l. 350 Arcite Annelida so sore Hath thyrled with the poynte of remembraunce [a1500 Harl. 7333 Rememberaunce]. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 37 Than rudlie come Remembrance Ay rugging me withouttin rest. 1531 J. Vaus Rudimenta (new ed.) iv. sig. hh Verbis pertenyng to ramembrans or forȝettyng. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vi. 13 Vnkinde remembrance: thou, & endles night, Haue done me shame. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 952 Not for thy life, lest fierce remembrance wake My sudden rage. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xix. 111 The same Idea, when it again recurrs without the operation of the like Object on the external [printed eternal] Sensory, is Remembrance. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. i. 16 When the word perception is used properly..it is never applied to things past. And thus it is distinguished from remembrance. 1822 F. Beasley Search of Truth in Sci. of Human Mind iv. xi. 524 The power of memory performs two very distinct acts, remembrance, and reminiscence or recollection. By the one, we involuntarily call to mind what we had before known, and by the other, we voluntarily recall those ideas which were once conveyed into the mind; or what is the same thing, think anew of those things concerning which we had thought before. 1867 R. Martineau tr. H. Ewald Hist. Israel I. i. ii. 391 This story bears, it is true, unmistakable signs of good remembrance. 1903 W. W. Atkinson Memory Culture ix. 50 Remembrance is apparently automatic in its action, while recollection is an act of volition. 1973 M. S. Frings & R. L. Funk tr. M. F. Scheler Formalism in Ethics & Non-formal Ethics of Values ii. vi. 436 Re-recognition is not restricted to remembrance, still less to reproduction. 1993 J. E. Tollington Trad. & Innovation in Haggai & Zechariah 1–8 v. 191 The suggestion of any direct quotation by Haggai of Micah's words, either verbatim or distorted by poor remembrance, can be discounted immediately. 5. The period over which a memory of events extends. Also: the point at which a memory of events begins. Now literary. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > period covered by membrancea1325 memory1530 remembrance1561 recollection1828 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 25 Whosoeuer deny y^t it hath thus ben done in time past, yea within our owne remembrance, they impudently lie. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Memoria patrum, in the time and remembrance of our fathers. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 112 Fro the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster. 1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 41 In latter times, within remembrance, when we had no Alliance with France, none in Denmark, none in Germany. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 204 Thee I have heard relating what was don Ere my remembrance . View more context for this quotation 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados x. 309 The largest that hath been taken in this Island, within my Remembrance, did not exceed four hundred Weight. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 219 I know but one other method.., which..has been practised successfully, more than once, in my remembrance. 1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) III. 229 There was a time, Sir, in my remembrance, and perhaps in yours, when follies of rank and fortune were as incommunicable as titles. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit vi. 71 I have had no parents these many years. Scarcely within my remembrance. 1892 S. R. Hole Mem. v. 65 Within my remembrance, great progress has been made in the quantity and quality of the music which we have in our homes. 1922 C. O'Riordan In London xxv. 201 Only once, within his remembrance, had he really wished to kill. 1965 M. Young Miss MacIntosh, My Darling lxxiv. 1071 The autumn leaves falling where there had never been a spring of any year within remembrance. 2005 S. Condray O Gracious One 211 For from time before remembrance, Yahweh brooded over the void. II. Senses in which the idea of an external stimulus to memory or thought is stronger: cf. remember v.¹ II. 6. †a. A record, account, or narration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > notes remembrancec1380 scrow1426 memoranda1450 memorialc1450 memorandumc1490 memoir1494 ticket1528 note1548 pamphil1571 notation1587 ricordo1617 notandum1645 bulletin1651 memo1705 remark1788 mem.1813 c1380 in Camden Misc. (1924) XIII. 2 (MED) A remembranse y-made that we lefte wt the scollemastyr of Ewuellme, ij cheuerlettis. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) 3 Esdras ii. 22 Be it soȝt in the bookis of thi fadris; and thou shalt finde in the remembrauncis [L. admonitionibus] writen of hem. 1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 307 He wol doo loke yf any remembraunce canne be founde therof. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xviii. sig. Jviii I can finde no notable remembrance, that it was used of auncient tyme. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 642 He saith hee found the remembrance of it in the Græcian books. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 650 This towne..requireth some large remembrance from mee. 1737 T. Hayter Exam. Bk. Quakers iii. 36 The Answers..are such as have been return'd..upon a Request made to them, to enquire in their respective Parishes, whether they found any Remembrance of the Prosections complain'd of by the Quakers. b. spec. A note or entry serving as a record or reminder; a memorandum. Now historical. rare. ΚΠ 1431 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1431 §27. m. 5 Make oute a remembrance under her seall..resityng þe issue þat is joyned. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 327 The seyd Styward seyde þat þe remembrances of sich libertes as perteyned to Cheylesmore weron yn the Tresory. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. K2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) I haue laden for your accoumpt..according to your remembrance sent vnto mee for the same,..seauen Buts of Secke. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 172 Set down vnder the hand of the sayd prince, in a priuat note-book of remembrances. a1676 M. Hale Hist. Common Law (1713) i. 13 Those Proceedings and Remembrances..are..in the Tower, beginning..with the 20th Year of Edw. I. 1978 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 10 30 There were three prothonotaries, who as chief clerks of the Court of Common Pleas were responsible for..controlling the business of the court by making ‘rules’ to declare or plead or to enter judgment, and minuting the business in their dockets and remembrances. †7. Mention, notice, record. to make remembrance: to relate, narrate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning mentionc1300 remembrancea1393 meaninga1400 mention-making1534 mentioning1565 commemoration1576 commenting1597 voicinga1626 memoration1627 citation1640 naming1677 observing1719 commentation1833 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 3392 (MED) As the bok makth remembrance, Alphonse was his propre name. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6050 (MED) Þe oþe is made & put in remembraunce. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 558 Quhen that he herd mak remembrance Off the perellys that passyt war. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2177 (MED) He was putte [from] his enheritaunce, Wherof be fore was made remembraunce. †8. a. The act of reminding a person or putting a person in mind of a thing. Cf. book of remembrance n. at Phrases 2. Obsolete. ring of remembrance: a device with rings used to prompt the memory (see quot. 1659). [after French souvenance (1611 in Cotgrave in this sense, who glosses it as ‘a Ring with many hoopes, whereof a man lets one hang downe when he would be put in mind of a thing’; 1603 in sense ‘ring given as a keepsake or souvenir’), transferred use of souvenance sovenance n.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] remembrancea1393 refrication1583 rememoration1624 remembrancing1627 reminding1645 refreshment1680 remindal1774 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > other types of ring kine-ringc1225 pontificala1500 hoop-ring1545 death's head1577 ring of remembrance1659 serjeant's ring1690 garter-ring1709 bath-ring1771 solitaire1832 regard ring1853 key ring1856 bodylet1870 portrait ring1877 tower-ring1877 whistle-ring1877 marquise1885 princess-ring1886 dinner ring1890 cluster ring1897 eternity ring1939 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 449 (MED) A solein tale..I schal telle in remembraunce Upon the sort of loves chaunce. ?1461 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 274 It is not for no lak of remembrans, for I sent to hym thryis [or] fowyr tymys ther-for. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. v. B It is..an offeringe of remembraunce, that remembreth synne. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 158 It serueth, namely, for a signe of rememberance to put vs in minde of our dutie. 1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxxiv, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) A ring of remembrance, viz. two or three interchain'd. b. bill of remembrance: a royal letter of authority. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > authorization > a token or evidence of > written form1297 commission1397 precept1397 warrant-dormant1423 bill of remembrance1481 warranta1513 warrantment1599 exequatur1788 brown-paper warrant1867 1481 in W. D. Macray Notes Munim. St. Mary Magdalen Coll. Oxf. (1882) 15 Dayly to atende tyll I myte haue T.S. at leysere and than breke y^e matere and schew to hym y^e byll of remembranse. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn placet, a bill of remembraunce to an Officer from the prince, a bill of processe. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 69 He gave him other possessions and rents and a bill of remembraunce to make him Lorde. 1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 58/1 The Evidence of all these things was left with Will. Cave the son of Thomas Cave Gentleman, by Sir William Filding befor the battail of Tewksbery, and a Bill of remembrance of the same after given to Ric. Cave. c. clerk of the remembrance: = remembrancer n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > other English officials wicknerc1000 purveyorc1425 remembrancer1431 Clerk of the Market1451 secondary1461 water bailiff1590 Master of the Jewel House1597 clerk of the remembrance1607 well-reeve?1648 stairer1695 bar-keeper1818 waste-inspector1898 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Kkk4^v/2 These [Remembrancers of the Exchequer] anno 37 Ed. 3. cap. 4. be called clerks of the Remembrance. [Hence in later dictionaries.] 9. a. An article given or taken to remind one person of another or (in later use) of a place or event; a keepsake, souvenir; a token. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > keepsake, souvenir tokenc1385 remembrance1424 memory?c1425 memoranda1450 remembrancer1593 momento1600 relic1611 memorandum1679 memento1768 souvenir1776 keepsake1790 ricordo1821 a present from ——1853 1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 63 (MED) I wil þat Iohn Ondeley haf a coueryd pece of siluer..for a remembraunce of me. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 34 (MED) iij of my beste gownys..I wil William Baret..haue for a remembraunce to thinke vpon me. a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 131 56 (MED) Geve me grace..To worchuppe the and that blyssed ladye, With the Remembrons of myne Abce. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Tii Do nat you bryng me some remembraunce or token from them. 1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) ii. sig. D3 Here's the sad remembrance of his life, Which for his sake I will for euer weare. 1724 in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 13 I desire your acceptance of a ring, a small remembrance of my father. 1790 Monthly Rev. Dec. 472 As a remembrance of this lady, he even carried about with him, and always used when alone, a desert-spoon that had belonged to her. 1845 C. Dickens Let. 2 Oct. (1977) IV. 396 I send you the claret jug. But for a mistake, you would have received the little remembrance almost immediately after my return from abroad. 1895 K. Marsden On Sledge & Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers (ed. 12) vi. 75 I had begged that our photographs might be taken later on, as a remembrance of this special meeting on behalf of the lepers. 1938 I. F. Marcosson Turbulent Years xviii. 450 The story is told that one Premier determined to defy precedent and keep a remembrance of his stay. He carried off the knob of the door leading to the Cabinet Room. 1971 S. Lehner Threepenny Christmas i. i. 11 (Nick takes off wig and hands the Paper Man a silver plate from the baby carriage.) Here, my man. Season's greetings and a small remembrance for letting me use your newsstand as a dressing room. 2002 H. G. Lewis Effective E-mail Marketing v. 86 Nothing is more delightful than to receive a remembrance you weren't expecting..a remembrance for no reason at all except a spontaneous feeling of affection. b. A memorial or record of some fact, person, etc.; a biographical memoir. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] mind tokena1382 remembrancec1425 relic1624 denkmal1877 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 2195 (MED) He longe abood in lamentacioun, And dide make..A large toumbe for a remembraunce. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1456 Go nobill buk,..Now byd thi tym and be a remembrance. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Ai Here after foloweth a mornynge remembraunce had at the moneth mynde of the noble prynces Margarete. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. G His wordes and counsels remayne for a remembraunce. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3 On his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord. 1598 R. Barnfield Poems in Encomion Lady Pecunia sig. E2^v A Remembrance of some English Poets. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 243 That figure which is engrauen at Rome in a marble piller being a remembrance of some Triumphe. 1661 E. Leigh Choice Observ. Kings Eng. 183 She raigned five years, and four moneths, wanting two dayes only. She lieth buried in Winchester without any Monument or remembrance at all. 1784 S. Glasse Magistrate’s Assistant 254 Lord Coke says, that a record is a memorial or remembrance in rolls of parchment. 1821 ‘B. Cornwall’ Rape Proserpine in Marcian Colonna & Other Poems (new ed.) 168 And is this fountain left alone For a sad remembrance. 1864 S. Taylor tr. J. P. Lange Life Lord Jesus Christ I. ii. ii. 325 It would be but natural that she should have preserved a written remembrance of what occurred in the house of Zachariah. 1902 R. N. Bain Peter III iv. 47 A lasting remembrance of his reign engraved in the hearts of his subjects would be far more grateful to him than the erection of golden statues. 1991 M. Thompson Leatherfolk 233 (heading) A view from a sling by Geoff Mains with a remembrance by the editor. †c. A heraldic device. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > emblem or device signc1300 devicea1375 remembrancea1470 posya1565 ensign1579 impresaa1586 imprese1588 brief1594 impressa1616 emblem1616 impressa1628 notado1647 impressa1656 blazoning1828 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 523 Sir Trystramys..commaunded Governayle, hys servaunte, to ordayne hym a blacke shylde with none other remembraunce therein. †d. A memorial inscription. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > for specific occasion or purpose His Majesty's Speech1583 New Year1595 panegyry1602 panegyric1603 remembrancea1616 valediction1619 panegyris1646 areopagitic1649 Hesped1650 allocution1689 maiden speech1702 Speech from the Throne1751 patter1772 inaugural1832 acceptance speech1855 oraison funèbre1856 keynote speech1863 keynote address1891 valedictory1892 keynote1896 pep speech1912 pep talk1913 society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > other types of inscription epitaph1387 elogy1605 remembrancea1616 elogiuma1699 manusculpta1859 laudation1868 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 229 Lay these bones in an vnworthy Vrne, Tomblesse, with no remembrance ouer them. View more context for this quotation †10. a. A verbal reminder; a remark reminding a person of a thing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > as injunction or warning mingingOE memento1580 memorandum1586 remembrance1600 monitor1623 monitive1638 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. ii. 114 I do commit into your hand, Th'vnstained sword..With this remembrance, that you vse the same [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate sig. B1 Breife Remembrances touching the particular Instruments for the Svrgions Chest. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. v. §29. 264 But let the understanding Reader, take with him three or four short remembrances. b. A reminder given by some thing or fact; a thing or fact serving to remind a person of something. Obsolete.In quot. 1606: a reminder or imitation of something similar elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > a reminder monishment1483 rememberera1542 remembrancer1556 memorandum1583 minding1601 remembrance1606 rememorative1613 reminder1614 rememoration1654 monit1692 flapper1726 remembrancing1800 tickler1808 refresher1809 reminding1865 1606 R. Peterson tr. G. Botero Treat. Magnificencie Cities i. x. 20 And as Lakes are certaine seuerall remembrances of the bosomes of the Gulphes of the Seas, formed and made by nature. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. ii, in Wks. I. 542 I'll be bold to leaue this rope with you, sir, for a remembrance . View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 107 The Orange trees..are greene in winter, giuing at that dead time a pleasant remembrance of Sommer. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 21 To knock their head against that of the doore, for a remembrance, that they were not to passe the threshold. 1739 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 174 I was not suffered to conclude my subject; a good remembrance that I should, if possible, declare, at every time, the whole counsel of God. 1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands xii. 271 He took a piece of line, which he had brought with him for the purpose of making remarks, and tied a knot thereon, as a remembrance of the circumstance. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 15 What..[are] dressing and undressing but stinging remembrances of the privileged nakedness of the savage? Phrases P1. †a. in (into, rarely for) remembrance, as a memorial or record; to put in remembrance, to put on record. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > [verb (transitive)] record1340 minda1382 remembera1382 to put in remembrancea1393 denotate1599 denote1612 chronologizec1616 log1823 society > communication > record > memorial or monument > as a memorial or record [phrase] in (into, rarely for) remembrancea1393 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2895 (MED) Cambises..a jugge laweles He fond, and into remembrance He dede upon him such vengance. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 562 (MED) Thei for evere in remembrance Made a figure in resemblance Of him. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 24 Of which were fourmed lettres for to write..in remembraunce perpetual þe thinges that [etc.]. a1500 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 614 To put his title in remembraunce, Whiche that he hath to Inglond and to Fraunce. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xix By token of a fayre stone layde for remembraunce. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. xiii. 2 I will destroye the names of Idols out off the londe: so that they shal nomore be put in remembraunce. 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 442 in Wks. (1931) I. 158 The ordour and the circumstance Wer lang to put in remembrance. b. in (†the) remembrance of, in memory of, as a memorial to or commemoration of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > in memory of [phrase] (to be) in memoryc1385 in memory ofc1385 in (the) remembrance ofa1400 in (the) memorial of1605 monument1613 to the memory of1653 a1400 Prose Life Christ (Pepys) (1922) 75 (MED) For þi schal hir dede be spoken of in þe ewandelye ouere al þe werlde, in remebraunce [read remembraunce] of me. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 153 Of þe scalpe of þe heued he gers make him a coppe, and þeroff he drinkez..in remembraunce of his fader. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F vij It is sayd that there is as yet in the same place a pytte in mynde and remenbraunce of the sayd myracle. a1525 Talis Fyve Bestes l. 41, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 128 He..in Rememberans evir' of þar' deidis..straik of baith þair heidis. 1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. A.iiii^v Do ye thys in the remembrance of me. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 105 That the..life of the people of Arpines, should be spared in the remembraunce of Tullie. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 108 Rew euen for ruth heere shortly shall be seene, In the remembrance of a weeping Queene. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xiii. 63 The day in remembrance thereof [was] yeerely solemnized with fasting the Euen. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 382 In remembrance of so brave a Deed, A Tomb, and Fun'ral Honours I decreed. 1715 P. Browne (title) An answer to a right reverend prelate's defence of eating & drinking in remembrance of the dead. ?1782 J. Hawkins Ess. Law Celibacy 146 A feast instituted in remembrance of this miracle is held forth urbi et orbi, that is, ordered to be kept in the divine office over the whole Catholic Church. 1805 Panoplist June 45/1 He therefore instituted a particular ordinance to be the representation and memorial of his death; and he commanded, that this should be frequently observed and attended in remembrance of him. 1852 A. Gray Shades of Hamlet 56 (heading) In remembrance of the Rev. Dr. Cochrane, Formerly Vice-President of King's College, Windsor. 1899 A. H. Hore Eighteen Cent. Orthodox Greek Church xi. 402 Olga, in remembrance of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine, changed her name for that of his mother Helena. 1933 H. Danby tr. Mishnah 796 The festival kept on Adar 14 (or 15) in remembrance of the salvation of the Jews in Persia, as recorded in the book of Esther. 1975 R. A. Potter Eng. Morality Play ii. 54 Everyman is to scourge himself, in remembrance of Christ's sacrifice and in petition for God's mercy. 2008 T. Rist Revenge Trag. & Drama of Commemoration in Reforming Eng. iii. 100 Instead, there is a series of alternative spectacles; some of them are in remembrance of the dead, but rather than valuing remembrance, they tend to detract from it. P2. book of remembrance n. (a) a memorandum book, a record, spec. one said to be kept by God (in later use understood with the sense of branch I.); (b) a commemorative book listing the names of the dead, esp. fallen soldiers; (c) a book which is signed by members of the public in honour of a person who has died. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > other types of journal book of remembrance1465 commentary1531 notebook1565 tablebook1582 remembrance booka1627 stam-book1662 memorandum book1683 memorandum paper1710 noctuary1714 workbook1766 memorandum tablet1774 journalet1776 birthday book1806 tickler1808 remembrancer1843 war diary1917 worksheet1925 pillow book1928 memory board1955 Daytimer1960 1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 307 Wyllyam Worceter had a boke of remembraunce of recaytys that hath be recevyd by Ser John Fastolf. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Memorialis liber, a booke of remembrance. 1611 Bible (King James) Mal. iii. 16 The Lord hearkened and heard it, & a booke of remembrance was written before him. View more context for this quotation 1703 Law of Errors & Writs of Errors iii. 11 Go with it to the Clerk of the Errors, who will take out the Judgment with the Debt and Costs of Suit, in his Book of remembrance for Bail. 1867 W. S. Plumer Rock of our Salvation xix. 363 Then, too, will be opened the book of remembrance. Its record will be full, minute, infallible. 1918 Times 4 Nov. 5 To place in the drawing hall a..memorial commemorating the names of all Old boys who have laid down their lives for their country; also to publish a ‘book of remembrance’. 1972 J. Ferguson Place of Suffering iv. 60 The Lord has his own book of remembrance. 1981 ABC News Transcripts: World News Tonight (Nexis) 7 Oct. People went to the Egyptian embassy and signed the book of remembrance for a man whose departure makes many Israelis nervous. 1995 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 4/7 There is also a plan to buy a new case for the Book of Remembrance at the Korean war memorial in St Paul's. 2009 News of World (Nexis) 5 Apr. 15 On Friday I signed the book of remembrance to the victims of last week's North Sea tragedy. day of remembrance n. a day dedicated to remembering the dead or marking an anniversary; cf. Remembrance Day n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Luke ii. 14 To keep a yearly day of remembrance. 1707 tr. H. Sibersma Glory of God at Danube 72 We also, in our days keep a day of Remembrance for the raising the Siege of Leyden. 1875 Times 29 Oct. 7 The North was equally careful to respect the Southern dead, gathering the bones of those slain on both sides into common cemeteries, and every year setting apart for both a common day of remembrance. 1950 M. Hankey Politics, Trials & Errors viii. 145 Perhaps the amnesty day might fall on the same day as the old Armistice Day. But instead of it being a Day of Remembrance it would be a Day of Oblivion. 1997 Granta Spring 57 Yom Kippur is also a day of remembrance. garden of remembrance n. a garden commemorating the dead, esp. those killed in the world wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45 or those who have been cremated. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > other types of memorial shield1817 death-mask1838 headboard1895 haniwa1931 garden of remembrance1954 1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 46 They'll catch me coming..Across the Garden of Remembrance? No, That would be blasphemy. 1959 Listener 22 Jan. 166/1 Here is a statue of Byron... Here are cenotaphs commemorating other philhellenes of several nations... The visit to what is now a garden of remembrance was a profoundly moving experience. 1973 J. Rossiter Manipulators iv. 48 With any luck..I'll find the bastard dead and scattered over a garden of remembrance. 2003 K. Worpole Last Landscapes viii. 184/2 Many crematoria are set within their own grounds, consisting of lawns, walkways and gardens of remembrance. Compounds C1. General attributive. remembrance banquet n. ΚΠ 1930 R. Graves Ten Poems More 9 A fresh remembrance-banquet to forestall The Knight turned hermit. 2002 Cambr. Reporter (Nexis) 8 Nov. a27 Tomorrow—remembrance banquet at Jacob Hespeler Hall, cocktails 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. remembrance ceremony n. ΚΠ 1919 H. M. Krammer With Seeing Eyes xvi. 264 The Medical Service officers..come to participate in this Remembrance ceremony. 2009 San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun (Nexis) 12 Mar. The Relay For Life will hold a remembrance ceremony for those who have died from cancer. remembrance wreath n. ΚΠ 1878 S.Neil in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream Notes 142 Turning over..the compliment paid to himself to a rival, and hanging it like a remembrance-wreath upon his tomb. 1922 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 13 Nov. 1/4 Remembrance wreath laid on tomb of unknown soldier at Arlington by President. 2006 Mt. Druitt—St. Marys Standard (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 5 Children participated in activities such as making Anzac cookies and remembrance wreaths. C2. remembrance book n. = book of remembrance n. at Phrases 2. ΚΠ a1627 W. Sclater Brief Comm. Malachy (1650) 186 He hath also, then, his remembrance-book, his register, for the ungodly. 1762 J. Hart Hymns (ed. 2) 172 In his Remembrance-Book The Saviour sets them down. 1850 J. Turnley Popery in Power 296 The great remembrance-book will then be oped, And God will count his dazzling jewels forth Before assembled worlds. 1922 Times 2 Oct. 18 In memory of six hundred officers and men of High Wycombe who fell in the war,..a vellum Remembrance Book containing their names is to be placed in the Parish Church. 1981 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 8 Oct. The Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, which was opened to the public Wednesday for those who wanted to sign their names in a remembrance book for Sadat. 1983 F. Graham Bob Pierce viii. 131 But remember: God has not forgotten them. He has His remembrance book. 2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 Nov. a6 The remembrance book is placed on an altar, joining six other books listing the names of Canada's more than 116,000 war dead. 2009 Metro (Nexis) 27 Mar. 9 Fans of Jade Goody have started signing a remembrance book opened ahead of her funeral next week. Remembrance Day n. a day dedicated to remembering the dead or marking an anniversary; spec. that kept in remembrance of those killed in the world wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45, now the Sunday nearest to 11 November and since 1945 combined with Armistice Day. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc. day of truce1486 Evil May Dayc1590 Bonfire Night1661 Pope Day1769 Pope Night1773 the Fourth (of July)1779 Town Taking Day1788 Independence Day1791 Independent Day1803 Guy Fawkes day1825 Bastille Day1837 Trafalgar Day1837 Turkey Day1870 Canada Day1882 Juneteenth1890 flag-day1894 Patriots' Day1894 Remembrance Day1895 twelfth1896 Quatorze Juillet1899 quatorze1915 Armistice Day1918 Poppy Day1921 Remembrance Sunday1925 VJ-day1944 Commonwealth Day1958 the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > solemn or religious remembrance minda1325 obsequyc1385 wreath-laying1888 Remembrance Day1895 Veterans Day1912 silence1919 Poppy Day1921 Remembrance Sunday1925 moment of silence1942 1895 T. Hardy in Harper's Mag. Sept. 588/1 ‘The place seems gay,’ said Sue. ‘Why—it is Remembrance day!’ 1918 Times 8 July 5/4 Remembrance Day should be national in the highest and noblest sense. 1956 B. Paulu Brit. Broadcasting x. 265 The Remembrance Day (the Sunday before November 11) ceremonies at the Cenotaph. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) v. 109 I see that fêtes, coffee morning and bring-and-buy sales, bridge afternoons and bazaars, raffles and Remembrance Day services, charity events of every conceivable hue, have been held beneath the British flag from Toronto to Tehran. Remembrance service n. a religious service remembering the dead or marking an anniversary, spec. one held on Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest to 11 November. ΚΠ 1918 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader 26 May 10/5 A ‘Remembrance Service’ for the 250 young men of the ‘Y’ now in service will be held at the building at 3:30 today. 1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin i. 312 You have an invitation. It's the Remembrance Service. 2003 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Nov. 15 The village's Remembrance Service will take place tomorrow. The parade will leave the Royal British Legion club. Remembrance Sunday n. Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest to 11 November. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc. day of truce1486 Evil May Dayc1590 Bonfire Night1661 Pope Day1769 Pope Night1773 the Fourth (of July)1779 Town Taking Day1788 Independence Day1791 Independent Day1803 Guy Fawkes day1825 Bastille Day1837 Trafalgar Day1837 Turkey Day1870 Canada Day1882 Juneteenth1890 flag-day1894 Patriots' Day1894 Remembrance Day1895 twelfth1896 Quatorze Juillet1899 quatorze1915 Armistice Day1918 Poppy Day1921 Remembrance Sunday1925 VJ-day1944 Commonwealth Day1958 the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > solemn or religious remembrance minda1325 obsequyc1385 wreath-laying1888 Remembrance Day1895 Veterans Day1912 silence1919 Poppy Day1921 Remembrance Sunday1925 moment of silence1942 1925 Times 29 Aug. 7/3 A view to establishing the Sunday before Armistice Day each year as a permanent Remembrance Sunday..to be recognized in all places of worship, when the alms would be given to the Appeal Fund. 1942 C. Milburn Diary 8 Nov. (1979) 157 Remembrance Sunday, and great news today! American troops have landed in North Africa. 2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 153 I telling you, I was out of every ceremony; every Bank Holiday, Remembrance Sunday, Christmas the whole lot. Me and Uncle Colin, cheeks like hamsters, blowing away on our trumpets. Remembrancetide n. the period immediately preceding Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest to 11 November, considered as part of the liturgical year. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Remembrancetide > [noun] Remembrancetide1952 1952 Times 4 Nov. 8/3 (heading) Remembrancetide at Westminster. The Empire Field of Remembrance in the churchyard of St. Margaret's, Westminster, will be dedicated on Thursday at noon. 1977 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 14 The 20th century has seen the creation of new commemorative rituals—and those of Remembrancetide are not the only ones. 2005 Church Times 18 Nov. 27/2 The horrors of war seem far closer to our everyday lives this year, bringing a far more insistent television focus on Remembrancetide than usual. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † remembrancev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: remembrance n. Etymology: < remembrance n. Compare earlier remembrancing n. Obsolete. transitive. To remind (a person). Also with of or clause. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > remind [verb (transitive)] mingOE mina1200 bethink1340 recorda1382 reducec1425 rememberc1425 rememorate1460 mind1524 revive?1564 remembrance1593 recall1595 prompt1600 remind1621 enmind1645 immind1647 refricate1657 commonish1661 flap1790 to touch up1796 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 91 Let vs looke for the sworde next to remembrance and warne vs. 1656 G. Collier Answer to Fifteen Quest. Ded. sig. A1^v The best return I am able to make you, is, Remembrancing you of your duty. 1684 E. Settle State of Eng. in Relation Popery 26 Woful Experience might have remembranced him how dangerous and destructive even a less Shadow of popish Inclinations had been. 1789 R. Potter Art of Crit. 169 I am inclined to forgive our biographer for some of his harshnesses, moved thereto by the friendly name of Sir Thomas Abney, remembranced by Dr. Gibbons. 1824 Christian Observer Dec. 763/1 Teaching and ‘remembrancing’ the disciple. 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