memoria technica
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of memoria technica
C18: New Latin: artificial memory
Example Sentences
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Some of the memoria technica of the medical student are peculiar.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
Here they learned the history of their family as the history of England: not a bad memoria technica, but one attended with some risk.
From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
As alliteration, at first a mere memoria technica, became an ornamental adjunct, and grew more developed, the parallelism gradually dropped out.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant
They were catchwords, as it were, memoria technica, which could easily be remembered, and would recall the fuller expositions that had been based upon them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
"But surely," said Charles, "a memoria technica makes you recollect a great many dates which you otherwise could not?"
From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry
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