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memorial
(mass) | memorial
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memorial
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memorial
(encz) | memorial,památník n: |
Memorial
(gcide) | Memorial \Me*mo"ri*al\, a. [F. m['e]morial, L. memorialis, fr.
memoria. See Memory.]
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1. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a
memorial building.
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There high in air, memorial of my name,
Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. --Pope.
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2. Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.
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3. Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
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This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be
expressed by the memorial word ASH. --Skeat.
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Memorial Day. See Memorial Day in the vocabulary. Also
called {Decoration Day}. [U.S.]
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Memorial
(gcide) | Memorial \Me*mo"ri*al\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]morial.]
1. Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or
event; something which serves to keep something else in
remembrance; a monument. --Macaulay.
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Churches have names; some as memorials of peace,
some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity
itself. --Hooker.
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2. A memorandum; a record. [Obs. or R.] --Hayward.
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3. 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.
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4. Memory; remembrance. [Obs.]
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Precious is the memorial of the just. --Evelyn.
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5. (Diplomacy) A species of informal state paper, much used
in negotiation.
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memorial
(wn) | memorial
n 1: a recognition of meritorious service [syn: memorial,
commemoration, remembrance]
2: a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a
petition to an authority
3: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events [syn:
memorial, monument] |
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memorialize
(mass) | memorialize
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immemorial
(encz) | immemorial,pradávný adj: Zdeněk Brožimmemorial,prastarý adj: Zdeněk Brožimmemorial,starobylý adj: Zdeněk Brožimmemorial,starodávný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
immemorially
(encz) | immemorially, |
memorial day
(encz) | Memorial Day, |
memorial park
(encz) | memorial park, n: |
memorial tablet
(encz) | memorial tablet, n: |
memorialisation
(encz) | memorialisation, n: |
memorialise
(encz) | memorialise, v: |
memorialization
(encz) | memorialization, n: |
memorialize
(encz) | memorialize,připomenout v: Zdeněk Brož |
memorially
(encz) | memorially, |
memorials
(encz) | memorials,památníky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
time immemorial
(encz) | time immemorial, n: |
Immemorial
(gcide) | Immemorial \Im`me*mo"ri*al\, a. [Pref. im- not + memorial: cf.
F. imm['e]morial.]
Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition;
indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
"Immemorial elms." --Tennyson. "Immemorial usage or custom."
--Sir M. Hale.
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Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal)
history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an
indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by
statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189).
Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since
that date made it unnecessary to establish the original
grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a
fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted
that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years
(or as against the crown thirty years) should not be
liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not
been enjoyed before.
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Immemorially
(gcide) | Immemorially \Im`me*mo"ri*al*ly\, adv.
Beyond memory. --Bentley.
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Memorial
(gcide) | Memorial \Me*mo"ri*al\, a. [F. m['e]morial, L. memorialis, fr.
memoria. See Memory.]
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1. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a
memorial building.
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There high in air, memorial of my name,
Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. --Pope.
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2. Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.
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3. Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
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This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be
expressed by the memorial word ASH. --Skeat.
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Memorial Day. See Memorial Day in the vocabulary. Also
called {Decoration Day}. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]Memorial \Me*mo"ri*al\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]morial.]
1. Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or
event; something which serves to keep something else in
remembrance; a monument. --Macaulay.
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Churches have names; some as memorials of peace,
some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity
itself. --Hooker.
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2. A memorandum; a record. [Obs. or R.] --Hayward.
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3. 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.
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4. Memory; remembrance. [Obs.]
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Precious is the memorial of the just. --Evelyn.
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5. (Diplomacy) A species of informal state paper, much used
in negotiation.
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Memorial Day
(gcide) | Memorial Day \Me*mo"ri*al Day\
1. A day, originally May 30, appointed for commemorating, by
decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic
exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served
the Civil War (1861-65) in the United States; Also called
Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the
States. In the Southern States, the Confederate Memorial
Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North Carolina and
South Carolina; the second Friday in May in Tennessee;
June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]
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2. A day designated for commemoration of all of the war dead
of the United States, clebrated on the last Monday in May
in most states. It supersedes the original Memorial Day
celebrated May 30th.
[PJC]Memorial \Me*mo"ri*al\, a. [F. m['e]morial, L. memorialis, fr.
memoria. See Memory.]
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1. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a
memorial building.
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There high in air, memorial of my name,
Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. --Pope.
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2. Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.
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3. Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
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This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be
expressed by the memorial word ASH. --Skeat.
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Memorial Day. See Memorial Day in the vocabulary. Also
called {Decoration Day}. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]Decoration Day \Decoration Day\
a day, May 30, originally appointed for decorating with
flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who
fell in the Civil War in the United States; -- now called
Memorial Day, and established as the last Monday in May,
and designated as a day for commemorating those who died in
all wars of the United States. [U. S.]
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Memorial rose
(gcide) | Memorial rose \Memorial rose\
A Japanese evergreen rose (Rosa wichuraiana) with creeping
branches, shining leaves, and single white flowers. It is
often planted in cemeteries.
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memorialise
(gcide) | memorialise \me*mo"ri*al*ise\, v. t.
Same as memorialize. [Chiefly Brit.]
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Memorialist
(gcide) | Memorialist \Me*mo"ri*al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]morialiste.]
One who writes or signs a memorial.
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Memorialize
(gcide) | Memorialize \Me*mo"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Memorialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Memorializing.]
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial
to; as, to memorialize the legislature. --T. Hook.
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Memorialized
(gcide) | Memorialize \Me*mo"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Memorialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Memorializing.]
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial
to; as, to memorialize the legislature. --T. Hook.
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Memorializer
(gcide) | Memorializer \Me*mo"ri*al*i`zer\, n.
One who petitions by a memorial. --T. Hook.
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Memorializing
(gcide) | Memorialize \Me*mo"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Memorialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Memorializing.]
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial
to; as, to memorialize the legislature. --T. Hook.
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Time immemorial
(gcide) | Immemorial \Im`me*mo"ri*al\, a. [Pref. im- not + memorial: cf.
F. imm['e]morial.]
Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition;
indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
"Immemorial elms." --Tennyson. "Immemorial usage or custom."
--Sir M. Hale.
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Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal)
history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an
indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by
statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189).
Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since
that date made it unnecessary to establish the original
grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a
fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted
that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years
(or as against the crown thirty years) should not be
liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not
been enjoyed before.
[1913 Webster]Time \Time\, n.; pl. Times. [OE. time, AS. t[imac]ma, akin to
t[imac]d time, and to Icel. t[imac]mi, Dan. time an hour, Sw.
timme. [root]58. See Tide, n.]
1. Duration, considered independently of any system of
measurement or any employment of terms which designate
limited portions thereof.
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The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day.
--Chaucer.
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I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to
be accounted simple and original than those of space
and time. --Reid.
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2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past,
present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as,
the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
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God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake
in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.
--Heb. i. 1.
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3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person
lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was
destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the
plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
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4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a
person has at his disposal.
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Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to
God, to religion, to mankind. --Buckminster.
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5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
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There is . . . a time to every purpose. --Eccl. iii.
1.
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The time of figs was not yet. --Mark xi. 13.
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6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
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She was within one month of her time. --Clarendon.
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7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event,
considered with reference to repetition; addition of a
number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four
times; four times four, or sixteen.
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Summers three times eight save one. --Milton.
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8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted
with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite,
duration.
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Till time and sin together cease. --Keble.
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9. (Gram.) Tense.
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10. (Mus.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo;
rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or
triple time; the musician keeps good time.
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Some few lines set unto a solemn time. --Beau. &
Fl.
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Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds,
mostly self-explaining; as, time-battered,
time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming,
time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned,
time-scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc.
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Absolute time, time irrespective of local standards or
epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same
instant of absolute time.
Apparent time, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so
that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit
of the sun's center over the meridian.
Astronomical time, mean solar time reckoned by counting the
hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the
next.
At times, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then;
as, at times he reads, at other times he rides.
Civil time, time as reckoned for the purposes of common
life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours,
etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided
into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first
series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to
midnight.
Common time (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which
ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are
taken in one minute.
Equation of time. See under Equation, n.
In time.
(a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in
time to see the exhibition.
(b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually;
finally; as, you will in time recover your health and
strength.
Mean time. See under 4th Mean.
Quick time (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred
and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken
in one minute.
Sidereal time. See under Sidereal.
Standard time, the civil time that has been established by
law or by general usage over a region or country. In
England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In
the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time
have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the
people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of
the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from
Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight
hours slower than Greenwich time.
Time ball, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a
pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich
Observatory, England. --Nichol.
Time bargain (Com.), a contract made for the sale or
purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds,
at a certain time in the future.
Time bill. Same as Time-table. [Eng.]
Time book, a book in which is kept a record of the time
persons have worked.
Time detector, a timepiece provided with a device for
registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman
visits certain stations in his beat.
Time enough, in season; early enough. "Stanly at Bosworth
field, . . . came time enough to save his life." --Bacon.
Time fuse, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which
can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain
definite interval after being itself ignited.
Time immemorial, or Time out of mind. (Eng. Law) See
under Immemorial.
Time lock, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when
wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when
locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed.
Time of day, salutation appropriate to the times of the
day, as "good morning," "good evening," and the like;
greeting.
To kill time. See under Kill, v. t.
To make time.
(a) To gain time.
(b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something;
as, the trotting horse made fast time.
To move against time, To run against time, or {To go
against time}, to move, run, or go a given distance without a
competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to
accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over
in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time.
True time.
(a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly.
(b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit
of the sun's center over the meridian.
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delaware memorial bridge
(wn) | Delaware Memorial Bridge
n 1: a suspension bridge across the Delaware River |
immemorial
(wn) | immemorial
adj 1: long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or
recorded history; "time immemorial" |
lincoln memorial
(wn) | Lincoln Memorial
n 1: memorial building in Washington containing a large marble
statue of Abraham Lincoln |
memorial day
(wn) | Memorial Day
n 1: legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May;
commemorates the members of the United States armed forces
who were killed in war [syn: Memorial Day, {Decoration
Day}] |
memorial park
(wn) | memorial park
n 1: a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery,
graveyard, burial site, burial ground, {burying
ground}, memorial park, necropolis] |
memorial tablet
(wn) | memorial tablet
n 1: a memorial made of brass [syn: brass, memorial tablet,
plaque] |
memorialisation
(wn) | memorialisation
n 1: a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something
[syn: commemoration, memorialization,
memorialisation] |
memorialise
(wn) | memorialise
v 1: address in a memorial; "The President memorialized the
heroes of the battle" [syn: memorialize, memorialise]
2: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This
sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration
camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate,
memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise,
record] |
memorialization
(wn) | memorialization
n 1: a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something
[syn: commemoration, memorialization,
memorialisation] |
memorialize
(wn) | memorialize
v 1: address in a memorial; "The President memorialized the
heroes of the battle" [syn: memorialize, memorialise]
2: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This
sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration
camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate,
memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise,
record] |
theodore roosevelt memorial national park
(wn) | Theodore Roosevelt Memorial National Park
n 1: a national park in North Dakota that includes the site of
former President Theodore Roosevelt's ranch |
time immemorial
(wn) | time immemorial
n 1: the distant past beyond memory [syn: time immemorial,
time out of mind] |
IMMEMORIAL
(bouvier) | IMMEMORIAL. That which commences beyond the time of memory. Vide Memory,
time of.
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IMMEMORIAL POSSESSION
(bouvier) | IMMEMORIAL POSSESSION. In Louisiana, by this term is understood that of
which no man living has seen the beginning, and the existence of which he
has learned from his elders. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 762; 2 M. R. 214; 7 L. R.
46; 3 Toull. p. 410; Poth. Contr. de Societe, n. 244; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3069,
note.
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