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morial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form. Memorandum check, a check given as an acknowledgment of indebtedness, but with the understanding that it will not be presented at bank unless the maker fails to take…

Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensa conversation.

of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.

ive of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. "Ministerial offices." Bacon. "A ministerial measure." Junius. "Ministerial garments." Hooker.

The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch. Lev. xviii. 21.

The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

r stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. To prevent such abuses, ... it has been found necessary ... to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were i…

pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac.

A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

d by the oxidation of gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with saccharic acid.

r protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. Dunglison.

ite or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.

story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.

That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; story; history.

Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.