Memory /(?)/

Mem·o·ry

Memory

n.

pl. Memories

  1. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
    Memory is the purveyor of reason.
    — Rambler.
  2. The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
  3. The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
  4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
    And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining.
  5. Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
    The memory of the just is blessed.
    — Prov. x. 7.
    That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
    The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.
  6. A memorial. [Obs.]
    These weeds are memories of those worser hours.

Phrases & Compounds

To draw to memory
to put on record; to record.