Emerson, Hist

Discourse at Concord. 71. Admonition; reminder. I do commit into your hand The unstained sword that you have used to bear; With this remembrance , that you use the same With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit As you have done 'gainst me. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 2. 115. Clerks of the remembrance. See remembrancer , 2.To make remembrancet, to bring to remembrance; recount; relate. =Syn. 1, 2, and 4. Recollection , Reminis cence, etc. See memory . remembrancer (re-membran-sėr), n . [ membrance + -er1.] 1. One who or that which reminds or revives the memory of anything. Astronomy in all likelihood was knowne to Abraham, to whom the heauenly stars might be Remembrancers of that promise, so shall thy seed be. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 65. Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sor row. Goldsmith , Vicar, iii. All the young fellows crowd up to ask her to dance, and, taking from her waist a little mother-of-pearl remem brancer, she notes them down. Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle Papers, Dorothea. 2. An officer in the Exchequer of England, employed to record documents, make out proce es, etc.; a recorder. These officers were formerly called clerks of the remembrance , and were three in number - the king's remembrancer , the lord treasurer's remembran cer, and the remembrancer of first -fruits. The queen's re membrancer's department now has a place in the central office of the Supreme Court. The name is also given to an officer of certain corporations: as, the remembrancer of the city of London. These rents [ceremonial rents, as a horseshoe, etc.] are now received by the Queen's Remembrancer a few days before the beginning of Michael mas term. F. Pollock , Land Laws, p. 8. rememorancet, n. [ME. rememoraunce , a var., after ML. * rememorantia , of remembraunce : see remembrance .] Remembrance. Nowe menne it call, by all rememoraunce , Const an tyne noble, wher to dwell he did enclyne.