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Webster 1913 Edition


Reminiscential

Remˊi-nis-cen′tial

(-n?s-s?n′shal)
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Adj.
Of or pertaining to reminiscence, or remembrance.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reminiscential

REMINISCEN'TIAL

,
Adj.
Pertaining to reminiscence or recollection.

Definition 2024


reminiscential

reminiscential

English

Adjective

reminiscential (comparative more reminiscential, superlative most reminiscential)

  1. Reminiscent.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Preface:
      Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but remembrance; that intellectual acquisition were but reminiscential evocation [...].
    • 1936, "Proust", Time, 29 Aug 1932:
      In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown.
  2. (of a person) Having a tendency to reminisce
    • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse.
      His curiosity had been more appeased than stimulated, but he felt none the less that he had "taken up" the dark-browed girl and her reminiscential mother and must face the immediate consequences of the act.