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who, witli her children, remained at the court of Darius 
fome time, till at length (lie fell under the power of the 
conqueror, who took her to his bed, and had a Ion by her. 
Univ. Hift. 
MEM'NON, a Greek hiftorian, is thought to have flou- 
fiflsed in the time of Auguftus. He wrote a hiftory of the 
affairs of Heraclea in Pontus, iixteen books of which were 
abridged by Photius. They came down to the death of 
an I-Ieraclean ambafiador to Julius Csefar, .then emperor. 
A Latin tranflation of his hiftory was publifhed at Oxford 
in 1597. 
MEM'OIR. f. [French.] A word now much in ufe for 
hiftories composed by perfons who had fome fhare or con¬ 
cern in the tranlaftions they relate, or who were eye-wit- 
neffes of them ; anfwering to what the Latins called Corn- 
men tar ii, or Commentaries. Thus we have Ca;Car's Com¬ 
mentaries, or the Memoirs of his Campaigns.—The French 
are great dealers in this way of writing, and have an infi¬ 
nite number of books of memoirs, containing, for the ge¬ 
nerality, the lives, actions, intrigues, amours, &c. of the 
writers. Chambers. 
Be our great mailer’s future charge 
To write his own memoirs, and leave his heirs 
High fchemes of government and plans of wars. Prior. 
Hint; notice; account of any thing.—There is not in 
any author a computation of the revenues of the Roman 
empire, and hardly any memoirs from whence it might be 
collected. Arbuthiot on Coins.—Memoirs A fo denote a jour¬ 
nal of the adts and proceedings of a fociety ; or a collection 
of the matters debated,, tranla&ed, &c. therein. Such are 
the Memoirs of the Roya] Academy of Sciences, &c. in 
Latin generally called Ait a, in Engliih Tranjuilions. 
MEM'ORABLE, adj. [Fr. from memorabilis, Lat.] 
Worthy of memory ; net to be forgotten.—Nothing I fo 
much delight to recount, as the memorable friendlhip that 
grew' betwixt the tw'o princes. Sidney. 
And dares Ulyfles for the prize contend. 
In fight of w'hat he durft not once defend ; 
But bafely fled that memorable day. 
When I from Heftor’s hands redeem’d the flaming prey ? 
Dryden. 
MEM'ORABLENESS, J'. The Hate or quality of being 
memorable. 
MEM'ORABLY, adv. In a manner worthy of memory. 
MEMORANDUM, J'. [Latin.] A note to help the me¬ 
mory.—I refolved to. new pave every ftreet, and entered 
a memorandum in my pocket-book accordingly. Guardian. 
Nature’s fair table-book, our tender fouls, 
We fcrawl all o’er with old and empty rules, 
Stale memorandums of the fchocls. Swift. 
The Latin plural is fometimes ufed.— The advice here 
given to the curious traveller of making all his memoranda 
on the fpot, and the reafons for it, deferve our notice. 
Mafon in a note to Gray's Letters. 
MEMORAN'DUM-BGOK, J\ A book in which me¬ 
morandums are entered. 
MEM'ORATIVE, adj. Belonging to the memory. 
Phillips. 
MEMO'RIA, f. in old records, a fepulchre, a monu¬ 
ment for the dead. 
MEMO'RIAL, adj. [tnemorialis, Lat.] Prefervative of 
memory.—May I, at the conclufion of a work, which is a 
kind of monument of Pope’s partiality to me, place the 
following lines as an infeription memorial of it. Broome. 
The tomb with manly arms and trophies raife ; 
There high in air memorial of my name 
Fix the fmooth oar, and bid me live to fame. Pope. 
Thy mailer now lies thinking in his bed 
Of thee and me, and flghs, and takes my glove, 
And gives memorial dainty kiiles to it. Shahefpeare. 
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Contained in memory.—The cafe is with the memorial 
pofleffions of ,the greateft part of mankind ; a few ujeful 
things mixed with many trifles fill up their memories. 
Watts. 
MEMO'RIAL, f. A monument; fomethingto preferve 
memory.—Churches have names ; fome as memorials of 
peace, fome ol wifdom, fome in memory of the Trinity 
ltfelf, fome of Chrift under fundry titles ; of the blefled 
Virgin not a few ; many of one apoflle, faint, or martyr ; 
many ol all. Hooker. —Medals are fo many monuments 
conligned over to eternity, that may laft when all other 
memorial's of the fame age are worn out or loll. Addijon. 
In other parts like deeds deferv’d 
Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought. Milton . 
Hint to aflift the memory.—He was a prince fad, ferious, 
and full of thoughts and fecret obfervations, and full of 
notes and memorials of his own hand touching perfons. 
Bacon. — Memorials written with king Edward’s hand fliall 
be the ground of this hiftory. Hayward. —An addrefs 
reminding of lervices and foliciting reward. 
MEMORIALIST, J'. One who writes memorials.—I 
muft not omit a memorial fetting forth, that the memo- 
rialifi had, with great difpatch, carried a letter from a cer¬ 
tain lord to a certain lord. Speitaior. 
MEMOR'ITER, adv. [Latin.] By memory ; without 
book; by heart. 
To MEM'ORIZE, v.a. [from memory j To record; to 
commit to memory by writing.—Let their names that were 
bravely loft b^ rather memorized in the full table of time ; 
for my part, I love no ambitious pains in an eloquent 
defeription of miferies. Wotton. —To caufe to be remem¬ 
bered : 
They meant 
To memorize another Golgotha. Shahefpeare. 
MEM'ORY, f [memoirc, Fr. memoria, Lat.] The power 
of retaining or recollecting things paft ; retention ; remi- 
nifcence; recollection.— Memory is the power to revive 
again in our minds thofe ideas which after imprinting- 
have difappeared, or have been laid alide out of fight. 
Locke .— The memory is perpetually looking back, when 
we have nothing prefent to entertain us : it is like thofe 
repolitories in animals that are filled with llores of food, 
on which they may ruminate, when their prefent pafture 
fails. Addijon's Spcitator.— Exemption from oblivion : 
That ever-living man of memory, 
Henry the Fifth ! Shahefpeare Henry VI. 
Time of knowledge : 
Thy requeft think now fulfill’d, that afk’d 
How firft this world, and lace of things, began. 
And what, before thy memory , was done. Milton. 
Memorial; monumental record : 
A fwan in memory of Cycnus fliines ; 
The mourning fillers weep in wat’ry figns. Addijon. 
Reflection ; attention. Not in uje : 
When Duncan is afleep, his two chamberlains 
Will I with wine and waftel fo convince, 
That memory, the warder of the brain, 
Shall be a fume. Shakejpeare's Maebetli. 
Memory may be defined “ that faculty of the mind, 
which prefents to us ideas or notions of what is paft, ac¬ 
companied with a perfualion that the things themfeives 
were formerly real and prefent.” What we diftinCtly 
remember to have perceived, we as firmly believe to have 
happened, as what is now prefent to our fenfes. 
Memory, according to Dr. Reid, is an original faculty 
given us by the Author of our being, of winch we can 
give no account, but that we are fo made. I believe molt 
firmly, fays this author, what I diftinCtly remember; but 
1 can give no reafon of this belief. It is the infpiration 
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