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f something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory. I . . . entered a memorandum in my pocketbook. Guardian. I wish you would, as opportunity offers, make memorandums of the regulations of the academies. Sir J. Reynolds.

Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.

A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.

A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

To write or print (a memorandum, direction, or the like) on the face of a draft, bill, etc.; as, to enface the words "Payable in Calcutta" upon the face of a draft.

To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

To make a note or memorandum of. I have itemed it in my memory. Addison.

A memorandum book.

The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed. Wharton. Bouvier.

A memorandum; a record. [Obs. or R.] Hayward.

The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.

A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

A book in which notes or memorandums are written.

To put on paper; to make a memorandum of. [Obs.]

A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.

An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.

folDryden. To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion.

t which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered. And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. Spenser. Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. Shak.

A kind of pocket memorandum book.