Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mnemonic .
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- adjective Assisting in
memory ;mnemonic .
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Examples
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The history of the universe is symptomatic, and life is mnemonical.
Representative Men 2006
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They do not reflect that all these mnemonical outside and imported schemes must _also_ be remembered, and that being in the form of sentences expressing loose relation of mere physical juxtapositions or the complex relations invented by constructive imagination or subtle intellect, they are, to most, more difficult to recollect than the extremes would be without these ponderous aids.
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Otherwise he would have respectfully taken note of each drinker and the color of his drink, since at a later period this would have been very useful to him as a mnemonical method for the understanding of our parliamentary combinations, which are
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When mechanical or mnemonical signs are wholly substituted for ideas and for authors, is it any wonder that persons incessantly using them become mechanical?
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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In fact, these mnemonical systems are only a kind of crutches, sometimes useful to people who cannot walk, but actual impediments to those having the use of their limbs, and who by proper exercise can maintain their healthy and natural use indefinitely.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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The history of the universe is symptomatic, and life is mnemonical.
Uses of Great Men 1914
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Otherwise he would have respectfully taken note of each drinker and the color of his drink, since at a later period this would have been very useful to him as a mnemonical method for the understanding of our parliamentary combinations, which are a little complicated, we must admit.
A Romance of Youth — Complete Fran��ois Copp��e 1875
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The history of the universe is symptomatic, and life is mnemonical.
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The history of the universe is symptomatic, and life is mnemonical.
Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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