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#493. Ignoramus.-- N. ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.
sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre.
greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; novice, tyro &c (learner) 541; numskull.
lubber &c (bungler) 701; fool &c. 501; pedant &c 492.
Adj. bookless, shallow; ignorant &c. 491.
Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits" [Pope].

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#494. [Object of knowlege.] Truth. -- N. fact, reality &c.
(existence) 1; plain matter of fact; nature &c. (principle) 5; truth,
verity; gospel; orthodoxy &c. 983a; authenticity; veracity &c. 543;
correctitude.
accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c. adj.; precision,
delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision
&c. (regularity) 80; conformity to rule; nicety.
orthology; ipsissima verba; realism.
plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth,
unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas;
the very thing; not an -illusion &c 495; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale;
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
V. be - true &c. adj., be the case; sand the test; have the true ring;
hold good, hold true, hold water.
render true, prove true &c. adj.; substantiate &c. (evidence) 467.
get at the truth &c. (discover) 480a.
Adj. real, actual &c. (existing) 1; veritable, true; right, correct;
certain &c. 474; substantially true, categorically true &c; true to the
letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious &c. 543; unreconfuted,
unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic.
exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just; strict,
severe; close &c. (similar) 17; literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous &c.
(conscientious) 939; religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific;
faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine;
clean-cut, clear-cut.
genuine, authentic, legitimate; othodox &c. 983a; official, ex
officio.
pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated,
unvarnished, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka.
well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid;
undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic,
unflattering.
Adv. truly &c. adj.; verily, indeed, in reality; with truth &c.
(veracity) 543; certainly &c. (certain) 474; actually &c. (existence) 1; in
effect &c (intrinsically) 5.
exactly &c. adj.; ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word
for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter
and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a
hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more
nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any
rate, at all events; strictly speaking.
Phr. the -truth, the fact- is; rem acu tetigisti; en suivant la
verite; ex facto jus oritur; la verita e figlia del empo; locos y ninos
dicen la verdad; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Cicero]; veritas nunquam
perit [Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Seneca]; the truth the whole truth
and nothing but the truth; just the facts.

#495. Error. -- N. error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension,
misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness &c. adj.; laxity;
misconstruction &c. (misinterpreptation) 523; miscomputation &c.
(misjudgment) 481; non sequitur &c. 477; mis-statement, mis-report;
mumpsimus.
mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight,
misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip,
stumble &c. (failure) 732; botchery &c. (want of skill) 699; slip of the
tongue, slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull &c.
(absurdity) 497; haplography.
illusion, delusion; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-decit,
self-deception; mists of error.
heresy &c. (heterodoxy) 984; hallucination &c. (insanity) 503; false
light &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (fancy) 515; fable &c.
(untruth) 546; bias &c. (misjudgment) 481; misleading &c. v.
V. be erroneous &c. adj.
cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile,
misinform &c. (misteach) 538; delude; give a false impression, give a false
idea; falsify, misstate; deceive &c. 545; lie &c. 544.
err; be -in error &c. adj., be mistaken &c. v.; be deceived &c.
(duped) 547; mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall
into error, lie under error, labor under an error &c. n.; be in the wrong,
blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount,
miscalculate &c. (misjudge) 481.
play at cross purposes , be at cross purposes &c. (misinterpret) 523.
trip, stumble; lose oneself &c. (uncertainty) 475; go astray; fail &c.
732; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear &c. (mismanage)
699; put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the
shadow for the substance &c (credulity) 486; dream &c (imagine) 515.
Adj. erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious,
apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial &c. 4; heretical
&c. (heterodox) 984; unsound; illogical &c. 477.
inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect; indefinite &c. (uncertain)
475.
illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal &c (imaginary) 515; spurious
&c. 545; deceitful &c. 544; perverted.
controvertible, unsustainable; unauthenticated, untrustworthy.
exploded, refuted; discarded.
in error, under an error &c. n.; mistaken &c. v.; tripping &c. v.;
out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark,
wide of the truth; astray &c (at fault) 475; on a false scent, on the wrong
scent; in the wrong box; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out.
Adv. more or less.
Phr. errare est humanum; mentis gratissimus error [Horace]; "on the
dubious waves of error tost" [Cowper]; "to err is human, to forgive divine"
[Pope]; "you lie -- under a mistake" [Shelley].

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#496. Maxim.-- N. maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm; dictum,
saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot, motto, word, byword, moral,
phylactery, protasis.
axiom, theorem, scholium, truism, postulate.
reflection &c (idea) 453; conclusion &c (judgment) 480; golden rule
&c. (precept) 697; principle, principia; profession of faith &c. (belief)
484; settled principle, formula.
wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted maxim, recognized
maxim &c; true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying, trite saying,
commonplace saying &c.
Adj. aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric; axiomatic, gnomic.
Adv. as the saying is, as they say.

#497. Absurdity. -- N. absurdity, absurdness &c. adj.; imbecility &c.
499; alogy|, nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence;
nugacity.
blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism|!, Hibernicism|!; slipslop;
anticlimax, bathos; sophism &c. 477.
farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago &c (disorder) 59;
betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy.
sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic.
jargon, fustian, twaddle &c (no meaning) 517; exaggeration &c 549;
moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.
vagary, tomfoolery, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade.
V. play the fool &c. 499; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess;
battre la campagne; ; be absurd &c. adj.
Adj. absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless,
inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-
contradictory; macaronic, punning.
foolish &c. 499; sophistical &c. 477; unmeaning &c. 517; without rhyme
or reason; fantastic.
Int. fiddlededee! pish! pho! "in the name of the Prophet--figs!"
[Horace Smith].
Phr. credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; tell it to the marines.

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#498. Intelligence. Wisdom. -- N. intelligence, capacity,
comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe * [U.S.], savvy * [U.S.];
intellect &c. 450; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit,
gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness &c adj.; acumen,
subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of,
good judgment; discrimination &c 465; cunning &c. 702; refinement &c
(taste) 850.
head, brains, headpiece, upper story, long head; eagle eye, eagle-
glance; eye of a lynx, eye of a hawk.
wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense [U.S.],
plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness &c. adj; judgment;
solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought,
compass of thought; enlargement of mind.
genius, inspiration, geist, fire of genius, heaven-born genius, soul;
talent &c. (aptitude) 698.
[Wisdom in action] prudence &c. 864; vigilance &c. 459; tact &c 698;
foresight &c 510; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast.
a bright thought, not a bad idea.
V. be -intelligent &c. adj.; have all one's wits about one; understand
&c. (intelligible) 518; catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take
a hint.
see through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see
through a millstone; penetrate; discern &c (descry) 441; foresee &c 510.
discriminate &c. 465; know what's what &c. 698; listen to reason.
Adj. [Applied to persons] intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen,
acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen
witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake;
canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted &c 510; discerning,
perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; nimble-witted, needle-
witted; sharp as a needle; alive to &c (cognizant) 490; clever &c. (apt)
698; arch &c (cunning) 702; pas si bete; acute &c 682.
wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's
right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens, judicious, strong-minded.
unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted, unprepossessed; undazzled,
unperplexed; unwarped judgment, impartial, equitable, fair.
cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long-
sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound.
oracular; heaven-directed, heaven-born.
prudent &c (cautious) 864; sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic,
wise in one's generation; watchful &c. 459; provident &c (prepared) 673; in
advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon.
[Applied to actions] wise, sensible, reasonable, judicious; well-
judged, well-advised; prudent, politic; expedient &c. 646.
Phr. aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportet; "but with the morning cool
reflection came" [Scott]; flosculi sententiarum; les affaires font les
hommes; mas vale saber que haber; mas vale ser necio que profiadol nemo
solus sapit [Plautus]; nosce te; ; nullum magnum
ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit [Seneca, from Aristotle]; sapere aude
[Horace]; victrix fortunae sapientia [Juvenal].

#499. Imbecility. Folly -- N. want of -intelligence &c. 498, want of -
intellect &c. 450; shadowness, silliness, foolishness &c. adj.; imbecility,
incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, clouded perception, poor
head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull
understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence &c
(unskillfulness) 699.
one's weak side; bias &c 481; infatuation &c. (insanity) 503.
simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness,
fatuity; idocy, idotism; driveling.
folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity,
inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry &c. 477; giddiness &c
(inattention) 458; eccentricity &c. 503; extravagance &c (absurdity) 497;
rashness &c. 863.
act of folly &c. 699.
b. be - imbecile &c adj.; have no -brains, have no sense &c. 498.
trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble &c (madness) 503; play the fool,
play the monkey; take leave of one's senses; not see an inch beyond one's
nose; stultify oneself &c. 699; talk nonsense &c. 497.
Adj. [Applied to persons] unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning;
mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head &c.
498; not -bright &c. 498; inapprehensible.
weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle
headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle
headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat
witted, fat-headed.
weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained;
rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull
witted, blund-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted,
short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story.
shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a
beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blundt, stolid, doltish; asinine;
inapt &c. 699; prosaic &c. 843; hebetudinous.
childish, child-like; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile,
anile; simple &c. (credulous) 486; old-womanish.
fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant;
sottish; bewildered &c.475.
blockish, unteachabel Baeotian, Baeotic; bovine; ungifted,
undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosphical; apish; simious.
foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept;
maudlin.
narrow-minded &c. 481; bigoted &c. (obstinate) 606; giddy &c.
(thoughtless) 458; rash &c. 863; eccentric &c. (crazed) 503.
[Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper,
unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-
imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent,
irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant &c (nonsensical) 497; sleeveless,
idle; useless &c. 645; inexpedient &c. 647; frivolous &c. (trivial) 643.
Phr. Davus sum non (Edipus; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" [Henry V.]
clitellae bovi sunt impositae [Cicero]; "fools rush in where angels fear to
tread" [Pope]; il n' a ni bouche ni eperon; "the bookful blockhead,
ignorantly read" [Pope]; "to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound"
[Churchill].

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#500. Sage -- N. sage, wise man; master mind, master spirit of the
age; longhead, thinker.
authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus
Apollo, Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi, "second Daniel."
man of learning &c. 492; expert &c. 700; wizard &c. 994.
[Ironically] wiseacre, bigwig.
Adj. venerable, reverenced, emeritus.
Phr. barba tenus sapientes.

#501. Fool. -- N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling,
dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt,
booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl;
goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany;
trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natureal, niais.
child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.
oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block,
put, stick, stock, numps, tony.
bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead,
jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead,
giddyhead; numbskull, thickskull; lackbrain, shallowbrain; halfwit,
lackwit; dunderpate; lunkhead [U.S.]
sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull
calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of
Gotham.
un sot a triple etage, sot; jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf,
gobemouche.
dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman; crone, grandmother; cotquean,
henhussy.
greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; dunce &c (ignoramus) 493; lubber &c (bungler)
701; madman &c 504.
one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent
gunpowder; qui n'a pas invente' la poudre; no conjuror.
Phr. fortuna favet fatuis; les fous font les festinas et les sages les
mangent; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent; stultorum plena sunt omnia
[Cicero].

#502. Sanity. -- N. sanity; soundness &c. adj.; rationality, sobriety,
lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, sound mind, mens sana.
V. be -sane &c. adj.; retain one's senses, retain one's reason.
become -sane &c. adj.; come to one's senses, sober down.
render -sane &c. adj; bring to one's senses, sober.
Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound,
sound-minded; lucid.
self-possessed; sober, sober-minded.
in one's sober senses, in one's right mind; in possession of one's
faculties.
Adv. sanely &c.adj.

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#503. Insanity. -- N. disordered reason, disordered intellect;
diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness.
insanity, lunacy; madness &c. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental
alienation, aberration; paranoia; dementation, dementia, demency;
phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium,
calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain
storm|!.
vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil,, siriasis.
fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist,
monomania; kleptodipsomania; hypochondriassis &c. (low spirits) 837;
melancholia, hysteria; amentia.
screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the
upper story.
dotage &c. (imbecility) 499.
V. be insane &c. adj.
become insane &c. adj; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose
one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad; rave, dote, ramble,
wander; drivel &c. (be imbecile) 499; have a screw loose &c. n., have a
devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head &c. (be uncertain) 475.
render mad, drive mad &c adj.; madden, dementate, addle the wits,
derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head.
Adj. insane, mad, lunatic; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis;
not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged,
unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented,
daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil;
deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatter brained,
shatter brained, crackbrained; off one's head.
maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting,
wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad.
corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard,
mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; bewildered &c. (uncertain) 475.
mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind &c. n.; touched
in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's
right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, far
gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind.
fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped, hyppish.
imbecile, silly, &c. 499.
Adv. like one possessed.
Phr. the mind having lost its balance; the reason under a cloud; tet -
exaltee', -montee'; ira furor brevis est; omnes stultos insanire [Horace].

#504. Madman. -- N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for
Bedlam, raver, madcap; energumen; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac,
kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c. (low spirits); crank, Tom o'Bedlam.
dreamer &c. 515; rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic,
fanatico; exalte'; knight errant, Don Quixote.
idiot &c. 501.

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SECTION VI EXTENSION OF THOUGHT

1. To the Past

#505. Memory.-- N. memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness;
tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae; tablets of the memory; readiness.
reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration; recurrence,
retrospect, retrospection.
afterthought.
suggestion &c. (information) 527; prompting &c. v.; hint, reminder;
remembrancer, flapper; memorial &c. (record) 551; commemoration &c.
(celebration) 883.
memorandum;
things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir,
keepsake, relic, memorabilia.
art of memory, artificial memory; memoria technica; mnemonics,
mnemotechnics; phrenotypics; Mnemosyne.
prompt-book.
retentive memory, tenacious memory, green memory|!, trustworthy
memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory,
ready memory, prompt memory.
celebrity, fame, renown, reputation &c. (repute) 873.
V. remember, mind; retain the memory of, retain the remembrance of;
keep in view.
recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look
back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call
upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's
thoughts back; rake up the past.
have in the thoughts, hold in the thoughts, bear in the thoughts,
carry in the thoughts, keep in the thoughts, retain in the thoughts, have
in the memory, hold in the memory, bear in the memory, carry in the memory,
keep in the memory, retain in the memory, have in the mind, hold in the
mind, bear in the mind, carry in the mind, keep in the mind, retain in the
mind, hold in remembrance; be in one's thoughts, live in one's thoughts,
remain in one's thoughts, dwell in one's thoughts, haunt one's thoughts,
impress one's thoughts, be in one's mind, live in one's mind, remain in
one's mind, dwell in one's mind, haunt one's mind, impress one's mind,
dwell in one's memory.
sink in the mind; run in the head; not be able to get out of one's
head; be deeply impressed with; rankle &c. (revenge) 919.
recur to the mind; flash on the mind, flash across the memory.
remind; suggest &c. (inform ) 527; prompt; put in mind, keep in mind;
fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare
dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the
memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory,
put in remembrance, memorialize.
task the memory, tax the memory.
get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's
fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by
rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers'
ends.
commit to memory, memorize; conover, con; fix in the memory, rivet in
the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the
memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory,
treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory,
enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff
the memory with, burden the memory with.
redeem from oblivion; keep the memory alive, keep the wound green;
tangere ulcus; keep up the memory of; commemorate &c. (celebrate) 883.
make a note of &c. (record) 551.
Adj. remembering, remembered &c. v.; mindful, reminiscential; retained
in the memory &c. v.; pent up in one's memory; fresh; green, green in
remembrance; unforgotten, present to the mind; within one's memory &c. n.;
indelible; uppermost in one's thoughts; memorable &c. (important) 642.
Adv. by heart, by rote; without book, memoriter.
in memory of; in memoriam; memoria in aeterna; suggestive.
Phr. manet alta mente repostum [Vergil]; forsan et haec olim meminisse
juvabit [Vergil]; absens haeres non erit; beatae memoriae; "briefly thyself
remember" [Lear]; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Quintilian]; "memory the
warder of the brian" [Macbeth]; parsque est meminisse doloris [Ovid]; "to
live in hearts we leave behind is not to die" [Campbell]; vox audita peril
littera scripta manet.

#506. Oblivion.-- N. oblivion, obliviousnedd, lethe; forgetfulness &c.
adj.; obliteration &c. 552 of , insensibility &c. 823 to the past.
short memory, treacherous memory, loose memory, slippery memory,
failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory; waters
of Lethe, waters of oblivion.
amnesty, general pardon.
V. forget; be forgetful &c. adj.; fall into oblivion, sink into
oblivion; have a short memory &c. n., have no head.
forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one
ear and go out the other.
slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the
memory; lose, lose sight of.
unlearn; efface &c. 552 , discharge from the memory; consign to
oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of &c. (turn
the attention from) 458; cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from;
let bygones be bygones &c.(forgive) 918.
Adj. forgotten &c. v.; unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of
mind; buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion; clean forgotten; gone out of
one's head, gone out of one's recollection.
forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean; insensible &c. 823 to the
past; heedless.
Phr. non mi ricordo; the memory failing, the memory deserting one,
being at (or in) fault.