The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of past events, or ideas which are past. A distinction is made between memory and recollection. Memory retains past ideas without any, or with little effort; recollection implies an effort to recall ideas that are past. Memory is the purveyor of reason.

A retaining of past ideas in the mind; remembrance. Events that excite little attention are apt to escape from memory.

Exemption from oblivion. That ever-living man of memory, Henry the fifth.

The time within which past events can be remembered or recollected, or the time within which a person may have knowledge of what is past. The revolution in England was before my memory; the revolution in America was within the author’s memory./\V/ .

Memorial; monumental record; that which calls to remembrance. A monument in London was erected in memory of the conflagration in 1666.

Reflection; attention.

To lay up in the mind or memory.