1.The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. "Memory is the purveyor of reason."
2.The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
3.The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
4.The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man. "And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining."
5.Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory. "The memory of the just is blessed." "That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth." "The Nonconformists... have, as a body, always venerated her (Elizabeth's) memory."
6.A memorial. (Obs.) "These weeds are memories of those worser hours."
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