Reminiscential

/ˌɹɛmɪnɪˈsɛnʃ(ə)l/ · adjective

Meaning

Of or relating to remembering; reminiscent..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or relating to remembering; reminiscent.
2. Having a tendency to reminisce (of a person)

Example Sentences

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.

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.

In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so’s gestures, the material of so-&-so’s gown.

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.

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

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• more reminiscential
• most reminiscential

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