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 and Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, DOI:10.2307/538735, 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• memorate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• 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

1. imperative second-person plural of memoro