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adj. - Of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory.

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Usage examples (6)
  • The only mnemotechnic device which ever worked with me did so by virtue of its superb and flagrant inconsequence.
  • Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an interval of amnesia, when, seated at the central table, about to consult the work in question, he...
  • For greater clearness, they took as their mnemotechnic basis their own house, their domicile, associating a distinct fact with each part of it; and the courtyard, the...
  • Now, remember that this worship is daily, that these formulas must be pronounced, these movements of the hands made with mechanical precision; that if the worshipper forgets...
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