memoirist (memworist)

Cf. memorist. ] A writer of memoirs; a biographer. Sir William Temple, the lively, agreeable, and well-informed e ayist and memoirist . Craik, Hist. Eng. Lit., II. 135. Carlo was beginning to swear "fit to raise the dead," writes the memoirist , at the tardine of the Norman pair. G. W. Cable, Stories of Louisiana, ii, memorabilia (mem" ō-ra-bil'i-ä), n. pl. [L., neut. pl. of memorabilis, worthy to be remembered or noted: see memorable.] 1. Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record. All the memorabilia of the wonderful childhood. Bushnell , Sermons on Living Subjects, p. 33. 2. Things that serve to recall something to memory; things a ociated with some person, place, or thing that is held in remembrance. memorability (mem"ō-ra-bil'i-ti), n. [ Many events of local memorability . Southey, The Doctor, xlvii. ( Davies .) memorable (mem'ō-ra-bl), a. and n. [F. mémorable = Sp. memorable = Pg. memo ravel = It. memorabile, ble; remarkable: as, the memorable names of history; memorable deeds; a memorable disaster. I pa ed through part of that for rest, which is called Fontaine Beleau for rest, which is very great and memorable for exceeding abundance of great ma y stones. Coryat, Crudities, I. 34 (sig. E). Witne our too much memorable shame When Cre y battle fatally was struck. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 4. 53. Neither the praise of his wisedom or his vertue hath left him memorable to posterity. Milton , Prelatical Episcopacy. On this memorable day [that of the battle of the Boyne] he was seen wherever the peril was greatest. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xvi. 2t. Keeping in remembrance; commemorative. I wear it [the leek] for a memorable honour; For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 7. 109. =Syn. 1. Signal, extraordinary, famous. II. n. An event worthy of being kept in memory; a noteworthy or remarkable thing. He that will be throughly acquainted with the principall antiquities and mem or ables of this famous citie, let him reade a Latin Tract of one Symphorianus Campegius. Coryat, Crudities, I. 74. To record the mem or ables therein. Fuller , Church Hist., X. vi. 24. The