memorate

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noun

an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.

OriginLatin memorātus →
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Meanings

nounmemorate (plural memorates)

plural memorates · alternative memorat

  1. artsan oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.

    An undemonstrable legend is no legend at all. One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.

    1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232
verbmemorate (third-person singular simple present memorates, present participle memorating, simple past and past participle memorated)

present singular third person memorates · participle present memorating · participle past memorated · past memorated · alternative memorat

  1. obsoleteto commemorate
  2. obsoleteto memorize

Origin

  1. Latinmemorātus
  2. Englishmemorate

From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (“to bring to remembrance, mention, recount”), from memor (“remembering”); see memory.

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APA

memorate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memorate

MLA

“memorate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memorate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “memorate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memorate.

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