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noun

Memorial n.

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument. "Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself."

A memorandum; a record. (Obs. or R.)

A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., often accompanied with a petition.

Memory; remembrance. (Obs.) "Precious is the memorial of the just."

(Diplomacy) A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

adjective

Memorial adj.

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building. "There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame."

Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.

Mnemonic; assisting the memory. "This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH."

Memorial Day. See Memorial Day in the vocabulary. Also called Decoration Day. (U.S.)

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"Memorial" Quotes from Famous Books

... resembled, in his undefined character, his grandfather more than his father, and who was destined to remain always as it were lost in the splendid halo of Louis the Great, attempted an intervention that deserves to rescue his name from oblivion. "He represented, from an anonymous memorial that had been addressed to him the evening before, that it was, perhaps, to be apprehended that the Huguenots might take up arms;" "that in case they did not dare to do this, a great number would leave the kingdom, which ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson

... where he departed this life, the 26th day of the last month.—POST BOY, June 5, 1703." The burial-service at his funeral was read at 9 at night, by Dr. Hickes, author of the THESAURUS which bears his name. There is no memorial to mark the site of his interment in the church; but there is a monument in the chancel to Mrs. Pepys, and Mr. Pepys is interred in a vault of his own making, by the side of ...

— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys

... In 1869, another memorial was erected in the principal street of Helpstone. The style is Early English, and it bears suitable inscriptions ...

— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry

... their astonishment at this information, a memorial was presented to them from three gentlemen, informing them that their friends had lent, likewise, to merchants of Canton in China, a sum of not more than one million sterling. In this memorial they called upon the Company for their assistance ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... "I would fain beg your acceptance of another gift. Here is a bugle, which an English yeoman has once worn; I pray you to keep it as a memorial of your gallant bearing. If ye should chance to be hard bestead in any forest between Trent and Tees, wind three notes upon it, and ye shall find ...

— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

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