According to Chinese tradition, the first inhabitants of the banks of the Hoang-ho, before the invention of writing properly so called, also made use of little cords knotted to notched staffs as mnemonic instruments.
The notches which these staffs sometimes bear form a connecting link with the mnemonic marks which the less civilised peoples have the habit of making on trees, on bits of bark, or pieces of wood.
The writing of these tablets is but a series of mnemonic signs which succeed each other in boustrophedon arrangement (see p.
Here the mnemonic system of "places," supposedly invented by Simonides, is explained obscurely.
The discussion of it in the treatises is usually an exposition of the mnemonic system of visual association, the discovery of which is ascribed to Simonides.
Though many suttas are little more than an exposition of some doctrine arranged in mnemonic form, others show eloquence and dramatic skill.
This mnemonicliterature attains its highest excellence in poetry.
We may as well omit from consideration, in this connection, the merely pictographic signs of the hunting tribes, although they were used for mnemonic purposes.
By him it was first published, but in a partial and incomplete manner, much of the original text and many of the mnemonic symbols being omitted, and no effort being made to improve Rafinesque's translation.
One of the most curious examples is that known as the Walum Olum, a short account of the early history of the Delaware tribe, written in that idiom, with mnemonic symbols attached.
Like the mnemonic lists in Widsith, these lines are probably very old.
I take the number-alphabet, the great mnemonic device for recollecting numbers and dates.
The following song is sung, the mnemonic characters pertaining thereto being reproduced on Pl.
Such songs are not used in connection with mnemonic characters, as there are, in most instances, no words or phrases recited, but simply a continued repetition of meaningless words or syllables.
This is said to indicate that the original maker of the mnemonic song was of the Beaver totem or gens.
Two similar and extremely old birch-bark mnemonic songs were found in the possession of a Midē´ at Red Lake.
An Indian is slow to acquire the exact phraseology, which is always sung or chanted, of mnemonic songs recited to him by a Midē´ preceptor.
War parties are not formed at this time, but mnemonic charts of songs used by priests to encourage war parties, are still extant, and a reproduction of one is given on Pl.
The initial mnemoniccharacters pertaining to each word or phrase of the original text are repeated below in regular order with translations in English, together with supplemental notes explanatory of the characters employed.
As an illustration of the songs used at this period of the illness, the following is presented, the mnemonic characters being reproduced on Pl.
The statement has been made that one Midē´ is unable either to recite or sing the proper phrase pertaining to the mnemonic characters of a song belonging to another Midē´ unless specially instructed.
Brinton, who giving the original in parallel pages, with the mnemonic signs, does not use in the English version the Indian names of the chiefs.
The mnemonic classifications furnish a place where the worker who remembers but little of a method or process can go, and recover the full knowledge of that which he has forgotten.
Just as mnemonic symbols save time and effort, so standard phrasing aids toward finding out what is to be done, and remembering how it is to be done.
These Mnemonic Symbols save actual motions and time in speaking and writing, and save time in that they are so designed as to be readily remembered.
They may run all the way from purely mnemonic signs to a fairly well developed alphabet.
Whether the marks on them were purely mnemonic signs, numerals, or verbal signs of some sort, no one knows.
Naturally, I won't object tomnemonic erasure of matters pertaining to your business once my contract's completed and I leave your employment.
And when I left Alexander's employment mnemonic erasure would have removed all memory of the Lani's human origin.
Many of the numerous and widespread rock carvings are mere idle sketches--of natural objects, mainly animals, and others are as exclusively mnemonic as the wampum above mentioned.
Lord Bacon, more than two centuries ago, wisely characterized mnemonic systems as "barren and useless.
The aids to memory supposed to be furnished by the various mnemonic systems may now be briefly considered.
Symbolic letters and mnemonic lines are not without attractions to those who understand them.
At this time the invention of alphabetic writing was still perhaps two thousand years in the future but writing of some kind, mnemonic and picture writing, had already been practised for perhaps two thousand years or even much more.
When collections are small no cataloguing is necessary excepting in the librarian’s mind, and his first mnemonic aid is classification, which is in fact a sort of cataloguing and takes the place of all other cataloguing.
That some analogies to this training in the keeping of books existed in the collections of mnemonic books is not merely inferred in general but found in the alleged training of keepers of quipus in the use and publication of these records.
Three of these classes, memory libraries, mnemoniclibraries and picture book libraries, correspond to well recognized book forms.
The heap of pebbles used for counting was possibly the very earliest mnemonic record.
Ideographic records Ideograms are the mnemonic stage of image writing.
Many of us have paid the not infrequent penalty; we have remembered our mnemonic doggerel, but have forgotten the key to it, and so have forgotten the events or numbers that it was meant to recall; there is always that danger.
Many of the numerous and widespread rock carvings are mere idle sketches of natural objects, mainly animals, and others are as exclusively mnemonic as the wampum above mentioned.
But there are two classes of songs peculiarly Jewish: the mnemonic lines for the study of Hebrew words, and those that depict the ideal course of a boy's life.
It is the earliest of the Lullian works in which Bruno expounds or comments upon the art of Raymond Lully, a logical calculus and mnemonic scheme in one, that attracted many imitators up to and after Bruno's time.
The external pose and indefinite modification of the objects appear to correspond with the gradual mnemonic revival of the typal form, and they reciprocally stimulate and react on each other.
The mnemonic symbol system for identification of parts and for charges.
Thus he fell into a sleep so deep that none dared to awake him.
The latter helped the student with the following Mnemonic line: Prae Contradic.
An ingenious Mnemonic of these various moods and their reduction to the First Figure by the transposition of terms and premisses has come down from the thirteenth century.
The processes might be indicated by the Mnemonic FAcsOcO, with c indicating the contraposition of the predicate term or Formal Obversion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mnemonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: evocative; mindful; redolent; reminder; reminiscent; retrospective; suggestive
