Memoried vs Memorized - What's the difference?
memoried | memorized |
(poetic, literary) Having a memory (of a given kind).
(obsolete, poetic, literary) Memorized, committed to memory.
*1818 , John Keats, "To—":
*:And yet I never look on midnight sky, / But I behold thine eyes' well memoried light [...]. (memorize)
to learn by heart, commit to memory
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* 2009 , A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:
* 2009 , Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:
As an adjective memoried
is having a memory (of a given kind).As a verb memorized is
past tense of memorize.memoried
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Adjective
(en adjective)memorized
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Verb
(head)memorize
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Alternative forms
* (UK) memoriseVerb
- Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.
- She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.