Mem'l

Noun

memorial (plural memorials)

1. (obsolete) Memory; recollection.
2. Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.
   • These mementoes or memorials [sculptural national monuments], though in the present age the unphilosophical and sciolistic spirit of some have led them to regard with contempt this method of honouring the illustrious great, excite a laudable admiration for the service or benefit to which they...1870, Walter Arthur Copinger, “Copyright in Sculpture and Busts”, in The Law of Copyright, in Works of Literature and Art: Including that of the Drama, Music, Engraving, Sculpture, Painting...
3. A chronicle or memoir.
4. (archaic) A note or memorandum.
5. A service of remembrance or commemoration.
6. A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.
   • Captain Surman […] immediately addressed a memorial to the governor, stating that an act of Providence had sent him into port for the preservation of the lives of those on board; he therefore trusted he should be allowed to refit and depart.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, page 178

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