Reminiscential

Quick meaning: Reminiscential is an adjective meaning Of or relating to remembering; reminiscent.

Meaning

Of or relating to remembering; reminiscent.

More Meanings

1. Having a tendency to reminisce (of a person)

Example Sentences

There a ferry was crossing the river, and old Ben grew reminiscential. He had been a ferryman back in the mountains.

His curiosity had been more appeased than stimulated, but he felt none the less that he had "taken up" the dark-browed girl and her reminiscential mother, and must face the immediate consequences of the act.

Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before.

1963, Edward Kennard Rand, Ovid and His Influence, New York: Cooper Square, Chapter I, iv. The Remedies of Love, p. 53, Turn a deaf ear to her flattery and tears. Above all, do not argue with her the justice of your case; do not give her a chance to argue. Burn her letters and her pictures; avoid reminiscential scenes.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reminiscent, reminiscitory, recollective, mnemonic, memorious, mnestic.

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