memorious

comparative more memorious · superlative most memorious

1. having an unusually good memory

   He had forgotten ever writing the work until, ten years later, a memorious friend produced it in Palermo, newly refurbished by Rota.

   2000, The New Criterion, volume 19, numbers 1-4, page 59

   Synonyms: elephantlike

2. Easy to remember, often for specific reason; memorable.

   Deeds they shall do so digne memorious glory, / song shall not suit nor Hist'ory hold the story.

   1880, Camoens [i.e., Luís de Camões], “Canto X”, in Richard Francis Burton, transl., edited by Isabel Burton, Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads): […], volume II, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, stanza 71, page 387

   Synonyms: memorable

3. Relating to memories.

   As a space inhabited in the present, it often houses material elements from the family's history, serving as a memorious map that describes and explains the family's genealogy and narratives of its past.

   2017, Brady Wagoner, Handbook of Culture and Memory, page 106