remediless 
The other sought to stanch his remediless wounds. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
As if some divine commission from heav'n were de- 
scended to take into hearing and commiseration the long 
remedUesse afflictions of this kingdome. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
3. Irreparable, as a loss or damage. 
She hath time enough to bewail her own folly and reme- 
diless infelicity. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), II. 139. 
This is the affliction of hell, unto whom it affordeth de- 
spair and remediless calamity. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
4f. Not answering as a remedy; ineffectual; 
powerless. Spenser. =Syn. 2 and 3. Irremediable, 
irrecoverable, irretrievable, hopeless. 
remedilessly (rem'e-di-les-li), adv. In a man- 
ner or degree that precludes a remedy. 
He going away remedilesly chaflng at his rebuke. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, L 
remedilessness (rem'e-di-les-nes), n. The state 
of being remediless, or of not admitting of a 
remedy; incurableness. 
The remedileisness of this disease may be justly ques- 
tioned. Boyle, Works, II. ii. 3. 
remedy (rem'e-di), n. ; pi. remedies (-diz). [< 
ME. remedie, < OF. "remedie, remede, F. remede 
= Pr. remedi, remeyi = Sp. Pg. It. remedio, < L. 
remediitm, a remedy, cure,< re-, again, + mederi, 
heal: seemedicine. Cf. remede.'] 1. That which 
cures a disease ; any medicine or application or 
process which promotes restoration to health or 
alleviates the effects of disease : with for be- 
fore the name of a disease. 
A cool well by, . . . 
Growing a bath and healthful remedy 
For men diseased. Shale., Sonnets, cliv. 
When he [a scorpion] is hurt with one Poison, he seeks 
his Remedy with another. 
N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 165. 
Colchicum with alkalis and other remedies for gout, 
such as a course of Priedrichshall or Carlsbad waters, 
will prove of great service. Quain, Med. Diet., p. 188. 
2. That which corrects or counteracts an evil 
of any kind; relief; redress; reparation. 
For in hpli writt thou made rede, 
"In helle is no remedie." 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. 8.), p. 50. 
Things without all remedy 
Should be without regard. 
Shale., Macbeth, iii. 2. IL 
3. In law, the means given for obtaining 
through a court of justice any right or com- 
pensation or redress for a wrong. 4. In coin- 
ing, a certain allowance at the mint for devia- 
tion from the standard weight and fineness of 
coins: same as allowance 1 , 7. 5f. A course of 
action to bring about a certain result. 
Ye ! nere it [were it not] that I wiste a remedye 
To come ageyn, right here I wolde dye. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1623. 
Provisional remedy. See pronsional. The divine 
remedy. See divine. =Syn. 1 and 2. Cure, restorative, 
specific, antidote, corrective. 
remedy (rem'e-di), v. t. ; pret. and pp. remedied, 
ppr. remedying. [< late ME. remedyen, < OF. 
remedier, F. remedier = Pr. Sp. Pg. remediar = 
It. rimediare, < L. remediare, remediari, heal, 
cure, < remedium, a remedy : see remedy, .] 1 . 
To cure; heal: as, to remedy a disease. 2. To 
repair or remove something evil from ; restore 
to a natural or proper condition. 
I desire your majesty to remedy the matter. 
Latimer, 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
3. To remove or counteract, as something evil ; 
redress. 
If you cannot even as you would remedy vices which 
use and custom have confirmed, yet for this cause you 
must not leave and forsake the common-wealth. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. 
Whoso believes that spiritual destitution is to be reme- 
died only by a national church may with some show of 
reason propose to deal with physical destitution by an 
analogous instrumentality. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 348. 
remeed, remeid, . See remede. 
remelantt, n. A Middle English form of rema- 
nent, remnant. 
remember (re-mem'ber), v. [< ME. remembren, 
< OF. remembrer (refl.), F. remembrer = Pr. 
remembrar = OSp. remembrar = Pg. lembrar = 
It. rimembrare (also in mod. form directly after 
L., F. rememorer = Pr. Sp. Pg. rememorar = It. 
rimemorare), < LL. rememorari, ML. also re- 
memorare, recall to mind, remember, < L. re-, 
again, + memorare, bring to remembrance, 
mention, recount, < memor, remembering, mind- 
ful: see memorate, memory.'] I. trans. 1. To 
bring again to the memory; recall to mind; 
recollect. 
Now calleth us to remember our sins past. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), IL 36. 
5068 
To remember is to perceive any thing with memory, or 
with a consciousness that it was known or perceived before. 
Locke, Human Understanding, I. iv. 20. 
2. To bear or keep in mind; have in memory; 
be capable of recalling when required; preserve 
unf orgotten : as, to remember one's lessons ; to 
remember all the circumstances. 
Remember thee ! 
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat 
In this distracted globe. Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. 95, 
Remembering no more of that other day 
Than the hot noon remembereth of the night, 
Than summer thinketh of the winter white. 
Waiiam Harris, Earthly Paradise, I. 427. 
3. To be continually thoughtful of; have pres- 
ent to the attention ; attend to ; bear in mind : 
opposed to forget. 
Remember whom thou hast aboard. 
Shak., Tempest, i. 1. 20. 
Remember what I warn thee, shun to taste. 
Milton, P. L., viii. 327. 
But still remember, if yon mean to please, 
To press your point with modesty and ease. 
Cotcper, Conversation, L 103. 
4f. To mention. 
The selfe same sillable to be sometime long and some- 
time short for the eares better satisfaction, as hath bene 
before remembred. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 89. 
Now call we our high court of parliament . . . 
Our coronation done, we will accite, 
As I before remember'd, all our state. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 2. 142. 
Pliny, Solinus, Ptolemy, and of late Leo the African, re- 
member unto us a river in Ethiopia, famous by the name 
of Niger. /.'. Jonson, Masque of Blackness. 
8f. To put in mind; remind; reflexively, to re- 
mind one's self (to be reminded). 
This Eneas Is comen to Paradys 
Out of the swolowe of helle : and thus in joye 
Remembreth him of his cstaat in Troye. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1106. 
I may not ease me hert as in this case. 
That doth me harme whanne I remembre me. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. B.), 1. 683. 
One only thing, as it comes into my mind, let me re- 
member you of. 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 308). 
I'll not remember you of my own lord. 
Shak., W. T., iii. 2. 231. 
She then remembered to his thought the place 
Where he was going. B. Jonson, A Panegyre. 
He tell ye, or at least remember ye, for most of ye know 
it already. Milton, Church-Government, ii.. Cone. 
6. To keep in mind with gratitude, favor, con- 
fidence, affection, respect, or any other feeling 
or emotion. 
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8. 
If them wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine hand- 
maid and remember me. 1 Sam. i. 11. 
That they may have their wages duly paid 'em, 
And something over to remember me by. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 151. 
Old as I am, for ladies' love nnflt, 
The power of beauty I remember yet. 
Dryden, Cym. and Iph., L 2. 
7. To take notice of and give money or other 
present to : said of one who has done some ac- 
tual or nominal service and expects a fee for it. 
[Knocking within.] Porter. Anon, anon ! I pray you 
remember the porter. [Opens the gate.] 
Shak., Macbeth, ii. 3. 23. 
Remember your courtesy*, be covered; put on yonr 
hat: addressed to one who remained bareheaded after 
saluting, and intended to remind him that he had al- 
ready made his salute. 
I do beseech thee, remember thy courtesy; 1 beseech 
thee, apparel thy head. Shak., L. L. L., v. 1. 103. 
Pray you remember your courts'y. . . . May, pray you 
be cover'd. 
/;. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour (ed. GiffordX i. 1. 
To be remembered*, to recall ; recollect ; have in re- 
membrance. Compare def. 5. 
To your extent I canne right wele agree ; 
Ther is a land I am remembryd wele, 
Men call it Perse, a plenteuous centre. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.X 1. 619. 
Now by my troth, If I had been remember'd, 
I could have given my uncle's grace a flout. 
Shak., Rich, m., ii. 4. 23. 
She always wears a muff, if you be remembered. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 
TO remember one to or unto, to recall one to the re- 
membrance of ; commend one to : used in complimentary 
messages : as, remember me to your family. 
Remember me 
In all humility unto his highness. 
SAo*., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 160. 
Remember me to my old Companions. Remember me to 
my Friends. JV. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 27. 
= Syn. 1. Remember, Recollect. Remember implies that a 
thing exists in the memory, not that it is actually present 
in the thoughts at the moment, but that it recurs without 
effort Recollect means that a fact forgotten or partially 
lost to memory, is after some effort recalled and present 
to the mind. Remembrance is the store-house, recollection 
the act of culling out this article and that from the- reposi- 
remembrance 
tory. He remembers everything he hears, and can recollect 
any statement when called on. The words, however, are 
often confounded, and we say we cannot remember a thing 
when we mean we cannot recollect it. See memory. 
II. intrans. 1. To hold something in remem- 
brance ; exercise the faculty of memory. 
I remember 
Of such a time ; being my sworn servant, 
The duke retain'd him his. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 190. 
As I remember, there were certain low chairs, that 
looked like ebony, at Esher, and were old and pretty. 
Gray, Letters, I. 217. 
2f. To return to the memory; come to mind: 
used impersonally. 
But, Lord Crist ! whan that it remembreth me 
Upon my yowthe and on my jdlitee, 
It tikleth me aboute myn herte roote. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, L 469. 
rememberable (re-mem'ber-a-bl), a. [< re- 
member + -able.'] Capable or" worthy of being 
remembered. 
The earth 
And common face of Nature spake to me 
Rememberable things. Wordsworth, Prelude, i. 
rememberably (re-mem'ber-a-bli), adv. In a 
rememberable manner ; so as to be remembered. 
My golden rule is to relate everything as briefly, as 
perspicuously, and as rememberably as possible. 
Southey, 1805 (Mem. of Taylor of Norwich, II. 77). (Dames.) 
rememberer (re-mem'ber-er), >i. One who re- 
members. 
A brave master to servants, and a rememberer of the 
least good office ; for his flock, he transplanted most of 
them into plentiful soils. Sir B. Wottm. (Latham.) 
remembrance (re-mem'brans), n. [Early mod. 
E. also remembraunce ; < ME. remembrance, re- 
membraunce, < OF. remembrance, remembraunce, 
F. remembrance = Pr. remembransa = Sp. remem- 
branza = Pg. remembranca, lembranca = It. ri- 
membranza, < ML. as if *rememorantia,<. rememo- 
rare, remember: see remember."] 1. The act of 
remembering; the keeping of a thing in mind 
or recalling it to mind; a revival in the mind 
or memory. 
All knowledge is but remembrance. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. '. 
Remembrance is but the reviving of some past know- 
ledge. Locke, Human Understanding, IV. 1. 9. 
Remembrance and reflection, how allied ; 
What thin partitions sense from thought divide ! 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 226. 
2. The power or faculty of remembering ; mem- 
ory ; also, the limit of time over which the mem- 
ory extends. 
Thee I have beard relating what was done 
Ere my remembrance. Milton, P. L., viii. 204. 
When the word perception is used properly and without 
any figure, it is never applied to things past. And thus 
it is distinguished from remembrance. 
Reid, Intellectual Powers, L 1. 
3. The state of being remembered ; the state 
of being held honorably in memory. 
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 
Ps. cxii. e. 
Grace and remembrance be to you both. 
Shak., W. I., iv. 4. 76. 
Oh ! scenes in strong remembrance set ! 
Scenes never, never to return ! 
Burns, The Lament 
4. That which is remembered ; a recollection. 
How sharp the point of this remembrance is ! 
SAo*., Tempest, v. 1. 138. 
The sweet remembrance of the just 
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. 
Tote and Brady, Ps. cxii. 8. 
5. That which serves to bring to or keep in 
mind. 
I pray, Sir, be my continual remembrance to the Throne 
of grace. 
W. Bradford, in Appendix to New England's Memorial, 
[p. 436. 
(a) An account preserved ; a memorandum or note to pre- 
serve or assist the memory ; a record ; mention. 
Auferius, the welebelouyd kyng 
That was of Ynd, and ther had his dwellyng 
Till he was putte [from] his enheritaunce, 
Wherof be fore was made remembraunce. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.X 1. 2177. 
Let the understanding reader take with him three or 
four short remembrances. ... The memorandums I would 
commend to him are these. 
ChiUingu-orth, Relig. of Protestants, Ans. to Fifth Chapter, 
[29. 
(b) A monument ; a memorial. 
And it is of trouthe. as they saye there, and as it is as- 
sygned by token of a fayre stone layde for remembraunce, 
yt our blessyd Lady and seynt John Euangelyste stode not 
aboue vpon the hyghest fSte of the Mounte of Caluery at 
the passyon of our Lord. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 27. 
If I neuer deserue anye better remembraunce, let mee 
. . . be epitaphed the Inuentor of the English Hexameter. 
0. Harvey, Four Letters. 
