Definition of Memento mori

1. Noun. A reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality.

Generic synonyms: Reminder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Memento Mori

membrification
membrum
membrum inferius
membrum superius
memcapacitance
memcapacitances
memcapacitive
memcapacitor
memcapacitors
meme
meme pool
memelike
memento
memento mori (current term)
mementoes
mementos
memeplex
memeplexes
memes
memetic
memetic algorithm
memetic engineering
memetics
memex
memimpedance
meminductive
meminductor
meminductors

Literary usage of Memento mori

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys by William Ernest Henley (1892)
"IX memento mori Herrick. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright— The bridal of the earth and sky— The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. ..."

2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"... Providence) for attempting a Philosophic History on the plan I have here explained. memento mori, INSCRIBED ON Л TOMBSTONE. The cypress, the yew, ..."

3. Poems by Heinrich Heine, Julian Fane (1854)
"memento mori. Never a Mass will there be chaunted, Never a ritual will they'say; Nothing said and nothing chaunted On my unblest burial day. , Yet, perhaps, ..."

4. Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art, Epigram, and Poetry by Frederick Parkes Weber (1918)
"Ancient Egyptian little wooden figure of a mummy, to be used as a memento mori at banquets, and the box to contain it. PW von Bissing. ..."

5. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"... memento mori cross the way ! ' " 131 Psalm 39. LM GIVE to the Lord, ye sons of fame, Give to the Lord renown and power ; Ascribe due honors to bis name, ..."

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