memoria technica

British  

/ mɪˈmɔːrɪə ˈtɛknɪkə /

noun

1. a method or device for assisting the memory

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Etymology

Origin of memoria technica

C18: New Latin: artificial memory

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Example Sentences

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memoria technica

Miss X. later remembered a memoria technica which she had once learned, with the clue, ‘Now Jewish elders indite a Greek copy’. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

"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 John Henry Newman

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

"Oh, Carry," said Eliza, "don't you recollect the memoria technica?"

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

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 William Davy Watson

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