remembrancer
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a person who reminds another of something.
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Remembrancernounany of several officials of the Exchequer esp one ( Queen's or King's Remembrancer ) whose duties include collecting debts due to the Crown
remembrancer
American
[ri-mem-bruhn-ser]
/ rɪˈmɛm brən sər /
noun
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a person who reminds another of something.
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a person engaged to do this.
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Usually Remembrancer
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(formerly) any of certain officials of the Court of Exchequer.
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an officer of the corporation of the City of London.
Remembrancer
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British
/ rɪˈmɛmbrənsə /
noun
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any of several officials of the Exchequer esp one ( Queen's or King's Remembrancer ) whose duties include collecting debts due to the Crown
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an official ( City Remembrancer ) appointed by the Corporation of the City of London to represent its interests to Parliament and elsewhere
remembrancer
2
British
/ rɪˈmɛmbrənsə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of remembrancer
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Anglo-French; see remembrance, -er 2
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I had originally made the book as sort of a personal remembrancer and as a gift for the cast and crew after our final year of shooting.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2025
He continues, Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Like grass is a metaphor for God’s greatness or something.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
So, the Lord Berkeley of Stratton holds that great office of Master of the rolls; the Lord Palmerstown is first remembrancer, worth near 2000l. per annum.
From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
How may we give the words a useful setting, as a remembrancer and a call to the young men of to-day?
From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd
The jockey rode the one-eyed colt, which he still retained in his possession,—a perpetual remembrancer of a memorable day in his rugged and uneven life.
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
The coin was valued at £15,000, which was paid to the finder as a reward by the King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
The king’s Remembrancer, created by King Henry II in 1154 and Britain’s oldest judicial post, presides over the trial in a curly, white wig and robes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
“The American Remembrancer and Universal Tablet of Memory” was a 1795 encyclopedia of biography and history.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2020
In Scotland, unclaimed estates are dealt with by the Office of Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2015
This gave occasion to a review in The Christian Remembrancer, afterwards enlarged and printed as a book by Mr. Maskell, a High Churchman who subsequently seceded to the Church of Rome.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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