menace (men as)

[ tained or perpetuated knowledge; posterior note or reputation: as, to celebrate the memory of a great event. The memory of the just is ble ed. Prov. x. 7. Use the memory of thy predece or fairly and tenderly. IMG:content-0466.png:[blocks in formation] 5. That which is remembered; anything fixed in or recalled to the mind; a mental impre ion; a reminiscence: as, pleasant memories of travel. Yet experience is no more than a ma e of memories a embled, that is, such trials as man hath made in time before. Putten ham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 31. Well, let the memory of her fleet into air. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1. I find no place that does not breathe Some gracious memory of my friend. Tennyson, In Memoriam, c. The Edmund Burke we are all agreed in regarding as one of the proudest memories of the House of Commons was an Irish man. Contemporary Rev. , L. 28. 6. That which brings to mind; a memento or memorial; a remembrancer. They went and fet out the brasen serpent, which Moses commanded to be kept in the ark for a memory , and offered before it. Tyndale, Aus. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 67. O my sweet master! O you memory Of old Sir Rowland! Shak., As you Like it, ii. 3. 3. 7. Commemoration; perpetuation of the knowledge of anything; a recalling to mind: as, a monument erected in memory of a person.-8t. An act or ceremony of remembrance; a service for the dead: same as commemoration, 2 ( b ). Their Diriges, their Trentals, and their shrifts, Their memories , their singings, and their gifts. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 454. And I am told that there are women of title who boldly demand memories to be celebrated when there are no communicants: and that there are ma priests who celebrate memories in the very time and place that the ordinary ministers are celebrating the Communion. Bucer, quoted in R. W. Dixon's Hist. Church of Eng., xviii. Legal memory, in Eng. law, the period since the beginning of the reign of Richard I.- Sound and disposing mind and memory, the phrase usual in statutes prescribing what persons may make wills, and generally construed to imply ability to collect and hold in mind the particulars both of the estate to be disposed of and of the persons standing in such a relation as to have just expесtations. To commit to memory. See commit. To draw to memoryt, to put on record. A noble storie, And worthy for to drawen to memorie. Chaucer, Prol. to Miller's Tale, 1. 4. =Syn. 1-4. Memory, Recollection, Remembrance , Remi niscence. Memory is the general word for the faculty or capacity itself; recollection and remembrance are different laration or indication of a hostile intention, or of a probable evil to come. The Trojans view the dusty cloud from far, And the dark menace of the distant war. Dryden, Æneid, ix. 37. No sound could have grated more unpleasantly on the pontifical ear than the menace of a general council. Pre scott, Ferd, and Isa., i. 6. Immensely strong, and able to draw in supplies constantly from the sea, Acre was a standing menace to the Eastern world. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 181. =Syn. See the verb. menace (men'ās), v.; pret. and pp. menaced, ppr. menacing. [ with destruction. Whan the i wille manacen ony man, thanne the i seyn, God knowe the wel that I schalle do the suche a thing, and tellethe his Manace. Mandeville, Travels, p. 231. When Vortiger harde their manasynge, he was wroth and angry, and seide yef they spake eny more ther-of he sholde do the same with hem. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 26. Thou art menaced by a you sand spears. Cowper , Elegies, iv. (trans.). 2. To hold out threats of; indicate the danger or risk of. He menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. Shak ., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 187. As to the vnbeleeuers and erroneous, it menaceth truly the greatest euill to come. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 251. Thus the singular misunderstanding which menaced an open rupture at one time was happily adjusted. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 19. =Syn. Menace, Threaten. Threaten is of very general application, in both great and little things: as, to be threatened with a cold; a threatening cloud; to threaten an attack along the whole line. Threaten is used with infinitives, especially of action, but menace is not: as, to threaten to come, to punish. Menace belongs to dignified style and matters of moment. II. in trans. To be threatening; indicate danger or coming harm; threaten. He that oft manaceth , he that threteth more than he may per for me ful oft time. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. Who ever knew the heavens menace so? Shak., J. C., 1. 3. 44. kinds of exercise of the faculty; reminiscence, also, is used men a cement (men'ās-ment), n. [ for the exercise of the faculty, but commonly, and then it stands for the least energetic use of it, the matter seeming rather to be suggested to the mind. The correctne of the use of memory for that which is remembered has been disputed. The others are freely used for that which is remembered. In either sense, recollection implies more effort, more detail, and more union of objects in wholes, than remembrance. Reminiscence is used chiefly of past events, rarely of thoughts, words, or scenes, while recollec tion is peculiarly appropriate for the act of recalling mental operations. See remember. Memphian (mem'fi-an), a. [ Busiris and his Memphian chivalry. Milton , P. L. i. 307. Memphite (mem'fit), n. and a. [ Mem phites , Μεμφίτης , Μέμφις , Menf , Memphis, an ancient capital of Egypt.] I. n. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Memphis in Egypt. II. a. Of or pertaining to ancient Memphis or to its inhabitants or dialect; Memphian: as, the Memphite kingdom. ment; as menace + -ment.) Threat; menace. It may be observed that wrongful men a cement is included as well in simple injurious restrain ment as in simple injurious compulsion. Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xvi. 33, note. menacer (men'ās-ér), n. One who menaces or threatens. Hence, menacer ! nor tempt me into rage; This roof protects thy rashne . Philips .