Memory

MEM'ORY, noun [Latin memoria; Gr. to remember, from mind, or the same root. See [[Mind]].]

1. 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.

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

3. Exemption from oblivion.

That ever-living man of memory

Henry the fifth.