reminiscential

comparative more reminiscential · superlative most reminiscential

1. Of or relating to remembering; reminiscent.

   Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before.

   1650, Thomas Browne, “Preface”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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   In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so’s gestures, the material of so-&-so’s gown.

   1932 August 29, “Proust”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2013

   1963, Edward Kennard Rand, Ovid and His Influence, New York: Cooper Square, Chapter I, iv. The Remedies of Love, p. 53, Turn a deaf ear to her flattery and tears. Above all, do not argue with her the justice of your case; do not give her a chance to argue. Burn her letters and her pictures; avoid reminiscential scenes.

2. Having a tendency to reminisce (of a person)

   There a ferry was crossing the river, and old Ben grew reminiscential. He had been a ferryman back in the mountains.

   1901, John Fox Jr., “Down the Kentucky on a Raft”, in Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Out-doors in Old Kentucky, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1920, page 74

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   His curiosity had been more appeased than stimulated, but he felt none the less that he had "taken up" the dark-browed girl and her reminiscential mother, and must face the immediate consequences of the act.

   1889–1890, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Tragic Muse […], volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC, page 150