单词 | short-memoried |
释义 | > as lemmasshort-memoried 1. Having a memory, esp. of a specified kind, as long-memoried, short-memoried, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [adjective] > having specified memory memoried?1573 ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 138v The well memoried man. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. iii. 262 Plato in his Thætetus, saith that the cholericke person is the best memoried. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 19 Stern-purposed waits the child-avenging wrath About the fore-doomed halls..while with sure-memoried sting Fury to Fury calls. 1860 G. W. Thornbury Turkish Life & Char. 47 Constantinople,..that great-sounding, many-memoried word. 1877 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 359 These unreasonable Irish still remember it all, so long-memoried they are! 1917 T. Hardy Moments of Vision & Misc. Verses 9 I'll never hear it again! It is overmuch for scathed and memoried men When sitting among strange people Under their steeple. 1953 E. Merriam Tomorrow Morning 60 The fresh-faced girl a memoried grandmother Rocking the dwindling years. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 153 Frugal, hardworking, sweet-tempered, somewhat simpleminded perhaps and short-memoried, but long on patience and cheerfulness. < as lemmas |
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