memorious

English[edit]

memorious (comparative more memorious, superlative most memorious)

(of a person) having an unusually good memory
- 2000, The New Criterion, volume 19, numbers 1-4, page 59:
  He had forgotten ever writing the work until, ten years later, a memorious friend produced it in Palermo, newly refurbished by Rota.
Easy to remember, often for specific reason; memorable.
- 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:
  Deeds they shall do so digne memorious glory, / song shall not suit nor Hist'ory hold the story.
Relating to memories.
- 2017, Brady Wagoner, Handbook of Culture and Memory, page 106:
  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.