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a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends, have at one's finger tips; commit to memory,<br />

memorize; con over, con; fix in the memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory,<br />

impress in the memory, stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the<br />

memory, store in the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory,<br />

embalm in the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the<br />

memory with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with.<br />

redeem from oblivion; keep the memory alive, keep the wound green, pour salt in the<br />

wound, reopen old wounds'; tangere ulcus [Lat.]; keep up the memory of; commemorate<br />

&c (celebrate) 883.<br />

make a note of, jot a note, pen a memorandum &c (record) 551.<br />

Adj. remembering, remembered &c v.; mindful, reminiscential † ; retained in the memory<br />

&c v.; pent up in one's memory; fresh; green, green in remembrance; unforgotten, present<br />

to the mind; within one's memory &c n.; indelible; uppermost in one's thoughts;<br />

memorable &c (important) 642.<br />

Adv. by heart, by rote; without book, memoriter † .<br />

in memory of; in memoriam; memoria in aeterna [Lat.]; suggestive.<br />

Phr. manet alta mente repostum [Lat.] [Vergil]; forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit<br />

[Lat.] [Vergil]; absens haeres non erit [Lat.]; beatae memoriae [Lat.]; briefly thyself<br />

remember [Lear]; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Lat.] [Quintilian]; memory the<br />

warder of the brain [Macbeth]; parsque est meminisse doloris [Lat.] [Ovid]; to live in<br />

hearts we leave behind is not to die [Campbell]; vox audita peril littera scripta manet<br />

[Lat.]; out of sight, out of mind.<br />

506. Oblivion -- N. oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness &c adj.; amnesia;<br />

obliteration of &c 552, insensibility to the past &c 823.<br />

short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory,<br />

failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory; waters of Lethe,<br />

waters of oblivion.<br />

amnesty, general pardon.<br />

[deliberate or unconscious forgetting] repressed memory.<br />

V. forget; be forgetful &c adj.; fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion; have a short memory<br />

&c n., have no head.<br />

forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the<br />

other.<br />

slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory; lose,<br />

lose sight of.<br />

fail to recall, not be able to recall.<br />

[cause oneself to forget] unlearn; efface &c 552, discharge from the memory; consign<br />

to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of &c (turn the attention<br />

from) 458; cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones &c<br />

(forgive) 918.<br />

Adj. forgotten &c v.; unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind; buried in<br />

oblivion, sunk in oblivion; clean forgotten; gone out of one's head, gone out of one's<br />

recollection.<br />

forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean; insensible to the past &c 823; heedless.

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