memorate

• memorat

From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (“to bring to remembrance, mention, recount”), from memor (“remembering”); see memory.

memorate (plural memorates)

1. (folklore) an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.
   • 1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232:

     An undemonstrable legend is no legend at all. One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.

memorate (third-person singular simple present memorates, present participle memorating, simple past and past participle memorated)

1. (obsolete) to commemorate
2. (obsolete) to memorize

• “memorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “memorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /memorˈate/
• Rhymes: -ate

memorate

1. present adverbial passive participle of memori

• IPA^(key): /memoˈrate/

memorate

1. adverbial present passive participle of memorar

memorate

1. past participle of memorar

memorāte

1. vocative masculine singular of memorātus

memorāte

1. imperative second-person plural of memoro

memorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of memorar combined with te