memorial

Memory; recollection.obsolete

Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.

• These mementoes or memorials [sculptural national monuments], though in the present age the unphilosophical and sciolistic spirit of some have led them to regard with contempt this method of honouring the illustrious great, excite a laudabl
• Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel with here and there a st

A chronicle or memoir.

A note or memorandum.archaic

A service of remembrance or commemoration.

A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.

• Captain Surman […] immediately addressed a memorial to the governor, stating that an act of Providence had sent him into port for the preservation of the lives of those on board; he therefore trusted he should be allowed to refit and depart

Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

• a memorial building

Contained in the memory.

• a memorial possession

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.archaic

• This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.