n. 1. One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye that are the lord's remembrancers. Isa. lxii. 6. (Rev. Ver.). [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. remembrance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. [ 1913 Webster ]

This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered. [ 1913 Webster ]

And on his breast a bloody cross he bore,
The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni&unr_;&unr_;on; instruction. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thee I have heard relating what was done
Ere my remembrance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Recollection; reminiscence. See Memory. [ 1913 Webster ]