Definition of Remembrancer

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

Definition of Remembrancer

1. Noun. (British) Any of several former officials in the Court of Exchequer. ¹

2. Noun. (British) A similar official of the Corporation of the City of London. ¹

3. Noun. A person who reminds someone ¹

4. Noun. A memento or souvenir ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Remembrancer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remembrancer

remelts
remember
remember oneself
rememberability
rememberable
rememberance
remembered
rememberer
rememberers
rememberest
remembereth
remembering
remembers
remembr'd
remembrance
remembrancer (current term)
remembrancers
remembrances
remembraunce
remembraunces
remembre
remembred
remembres
remembrest
remembreth
remembring
remembrynge
rememorate
rememorated
rememorates

Literary usage of Remembrancer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"remembrancer, the name originally of certain subordinate ... The office itself is of great iniquity, the holder having been termed remembrancer, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"remembrancer, the name originally of certain subordinate officers of the English Exchequer. The office itself is of great antiquity, the bolder having been ..."

3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1856)
"AP Stanley as well as by a recent writer in the Christian remembrancer." This statement I attribute rather to the reporter of the lecture than to yourself. ..."

4. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1835)
"or by the said Chief or Second remembrancer, which shall from thenceforth be by Law required, or needful to be issued, done, had, received, filed, recorded, ..."

5. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"We can only conjecture that his Puritanism, which, as is evident from his Halleluiah, or Britain's Second remembrancer, published in 1641, had been steadily ..."

6. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"An account of all stock, cash, exchequer bills, &c. in the hands of the present deputy remembrancer, shall be made up, and such cash, &c. shall be paid into ..."

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