memoria technica
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of memoria technica
C18: New Latin: artificial memory
Example Sentences
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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
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
For the vulgar, who have no architectural knowledge, I have memoria technica for the instant recognition of the three orders—Cabbages, Corinthian; horns, Ionic; anything else, Doric.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec
Some of the memoria technica of the medical student are peculiar.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
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