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

Example Sentences

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

Thus the scholars of India, ages ago, selected a set of words for a memoria technica, in order to record dates and numbers.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard

But a sermon is less easy to remember than a poem or matter arranged by some method of memoria technica.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

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 Lang, Andrew

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