REMINIS'CENCE, noun [Latin reminiscens, reminiscor, Gr. See Memory.] 1. That faculty of the mind by which ideas formerly received into it, but forgotten, are recalled or revived in the memory. 2. Recollection; recovery of ideas that had escaped from the memory.
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