reminiscential
Americanadjective
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Origin of reminiscential
1640–50; < Late Latin reminiscenti ( a ) reminiscence + -al 1
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Latest newshawk to add his reminiscential bit to the pile was Negley Farson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soldierlike--monosyllabic--in his official and business dealings he threw aside all formality and reserve in his social intercourse, delightfully reminiscential, indeed a capital story teller.
From Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Watterson, Henry
We have nearly reached the middle of the eighteenth century, and you may surely carry on your reminiscential exertions to the close of the same.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Maybe the tone of the time fosters a reminiscential and intimately personal mood, by driving a man for refuge into the only place where peace can still be found—into himself.
From Alone by Douglas, Norman
The memory of flowers again and again laid a detaining hand upon him, and must have ministered to him unrecorded in how many a night hour, mindful, reminiscential, with what gentle ministerings!
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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