Hypertext Webster Gateway: "remembrancer"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Remembrancer \Re*mem"bran*cer\ (-bran-s?r), n.
1. One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in,
mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.

Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of
sorrow. --Goldsmith.

Ye that are the lord's remembrancers. --Isa. lxii.
6. (Rev.
Ver.).

2. A term applied in England to several officers, having
various functions, their duty originally being to bring
certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at
the proper time. ``The remembrancer of the lord treasurer
in the exchequer.'' --Bacon.


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