memorists

Noun

memorist (plural memorists)

1. One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.
   • Though thou hadst the memory of Seneca or Simonides, and conscience the punctual memorist within us, yet trust not to thy remembrance in things which heed phylacteries.1682, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals (published 1716)
   1. One who writes or recites a history, biography, memoir, or similar work containing memories.
      • Discretion is a lost art with the memorist and we would hail its return with joy and relief.1901, “A Plea for Autobiography”, in Carina Campbell Eaglesfield, editor, Books Triumphant: Essays on Literature, page 39
2. One who is capable of impressive feats of memory.
   • Still, Swann did sketch some details of the island, and memorizing aerial photographs of the entire planet would tax even the most clever memorist.1975, David Black, Ekstasy: Out-of-the-body Experiences, page 114
3. One who remembers a particular thing or in a particular way.
   • I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of...1784, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, page 256