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Definition of Memento mori
1. Noun. A reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Memento Mori
Literary usage of Memento mori
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys by William Ernest Henley (1892)
"IX memento mori Herrick. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright— The bridal of
the earth and sky— The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"... Providence) for attempting a Philosophic History on the plan I have here
explained. memento mori, INSCRIBED ON Л TOMBSTONE. The cypress, the yew, ..."
3. Poems by Heinrich Heine, Julian Fane (1854)
"memento mori. Never a Mass will there be chaunted, Never a ritual will they'say;
Nothing said and nothing chaunted On my unblest burial day. , Yet, perhaps, ..."
4. Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art, Epigram, and Poetry by Frederick Parkes Weber (1918)
"Ancient Egyptian little wooden figure of a mummy, to be used as a memento mori
at banquets, and the box to contain it. PW von Bissing. ..."
5. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"... memento mori cross the way ! ' " 131 Psalm 39. LM GIVE to the Lord, ye sons
of fame, Give to the Lord renown and power ; Ascribe due honors to bis name, ..."
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