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memorate

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

Noun

memorate (plural memorates)

  1. an 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

Verb

memorate (third-person singular simple present memorates, present participle memorating, simple past and past participle memorated)

  1. (obsolete) to commemorate
  2. (obsolete) to memorize

Forms of memorate

Noun
pluralmemorates
alternative formmemorat
Verb
third-person singular presentmemorates
present participlememorating
past participlememorated
pastmemorated

Origin of memorate

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

Questions about memorate

What does memorate mean?
Memorate means an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.
What part of speech is memorate?
Memorate can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of memorate?
The plural of memorate is memorates.

Words near memorate in the dictionary

  1. memoranduming
  2. memorandums
  3. memorandums of understanding
  4. Memorare
  5. memorat
  6. memorate
  7. memorated
  8. memorates
  9. memorating
  10. memorative
  11. memorats

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