What does memorist mean?
Memorist means One who, or that which, causes to be remembered..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One who, or that which, causes to be remembered..
Though thou hadst the memory of Seneca or Simonides, and conscience the punctual memorist within us, yet trust not to thy remembrance in things which heed phylacteries.
A good interview allows the memorist enough room to construct a story,
i'm a memorist. i collect memories. i'm the person you forgot you told a memory to.
Still, Swann did sketch some details of the island, and memorizing aerial photographs of the entire planet would tax even the most clever memorist.
Our ethics professor is the most remarkable memorist we have ever met; in fact, his abilities to recall things are remarkable.
I saw the most obvious example of this as a kid when a memorist appeared on a Sunday morning TV show. He was introduced to the 100 or so youngsters in the audience and repeated all of their names back to them at the end of the show.
It is not possible to compare his digit span with any other memorist because he refused to be tested in the usual way; his digit span would obviously be quite long because he was able to recite strings of 25 or 26 digits after an exposure of only one second (Weinland, 1948).
I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side.
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Memorist means One who, or that which, causes to be remembered..
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Though thou hadst the memory of Seneca or Simonides, and conscience the punctual memorist within us, yet trust not to thy remembrance in things which heed phylacteries.
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