ecphore

present singular third person ecphores · participle present ecphoring · participle past ecphored · past ecphored · alternative ekphore

1. obsoleterarehuman sciencesTo activate a latent engram as part of memory retrieval.

   One part of an engram may ecphore another engram in the same way that part of the stimulating situation reinstates the total engram.

   1924 September 29, Harry L. Hollingworth, “Particular Features of Meaning”, in Psychological Review, volume XXXI, number 5, via the Internet Archive, retrieved 30 Aug 2026, page 353

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   By this I mean that, if a subject had e.g. learnt a series A—B—C, etc., and if B was given in the examination, instead of endeavouring to 'ecphore' any related member (i.e. A or C) impartially, the subject more or less unconsciously set his attention in the forward direction […]

   1912, Psychological Laboratory, University of London, University College Collected Papers, volume III, via Google Books, retrieved 30 Aug 2026

   I endeavoured to ecphore the remainder of the figure and then an image came up again. I still call this visual, but it had nothing of the sense perception of the primary memory image.

   1915, N. Carey, “Factors in the Mental Processes of School Children”, in The British Journal of Psychology, volume VII, via the Internet Archive, retrieved 30 Aug 2026, page 479

   We have defined a configuration as a group of engram-sets which tends to ecphore as a whole when a stimulus is acting on part of it.

   1926, Ida Beata Saxby, “III: The Growth of the Conscious Self: THe Habit and the Complex”, in The Psychology of the Thinker, University of London Press, via the Internet Archive, retrieved 30 Aug 2026, page 33