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Particular; individual; special; appropriate. While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. Milton. My fate is Juno's most peculiar care. Dryden.

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.

other part of memory, called reminiscence, which is the retrieving of a thing at present forgot, or but confusedly remembered. South. I forgive your want of reminiscence, since it is long since I saw you. Sir W. Scott.

To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost). [Slang]

It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. Swift.

utually forgiveness; So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten. Rowe.

rdness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. Pope.

ation, as of a family or a clan. And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way att…

To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned. Dryden.

led fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. J. Philips. Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. Heber.