memoria technica
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of memoria technica
C18: New Latin: artificial memory
Example Sentences
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The peasant girl still knots her handkerchief as her memoria technica, and the lady changes her ring from its accustomed finger.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances
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
“If that be all, sir, within two minutes you shall have a memoria technica prepared for use during the voyage.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
It supplied not only a memoria technica, but an organon, or method by which the genesis of all ideas from unity might be represented intelligibly and easily.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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