Meanings
- rhetoricuncountableThe quotation of an approved authority from memory: ad verecundiam.
Apomnemonsysis, called of some Dieu commemoratio, that is, the rehearsal of a saying: It is a forme of speech by which the Orator reciteth some saing or sentence of another worthy of remembrance and observation.
1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀπομνημόνευσις“recollection, quotation from memory”
- Englishapomnemonysis
From Ancient Greek ἀπομνημόνευσις (apomnēmóneusis, “recollection, quotation from memory”), from ἀπομνημονεύω (apomnēmoneúō, “to recollect, quote from memory”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful”).
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