REMEMBRANCER Definition & Meaning

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remembrancer

[ ri-mem-bruhn-ser ]

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noun

a person who reminds another of something.
a person engaged to do this.
a reminder; memento; souvenir.
Usually Remembrancer.
1. King's Remembrancer ( def ).
2. (formerly) any of certain officials of the Court of Exchequer.
an officer of the corporation of the City of London.

Remembrancer

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noun

any of several officials of the Exchequer esp one ( Queen's or King's Remembrancer ) whose duties include collecting debts due to the Crown
an official ( City Remembrancer ) appointed by the Corporation of the City of London to represent its interests to Parliament and elsewhere

remembrancer

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noun

archaic.
a reminder, memento, or keepsake

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of remembrancer¹

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Anglo-French; remembrance, -er ²

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I had originally made the book as sort of a personal remembrancer and as a gift for the cast and crew after our final year of shooting.

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Stuff where the focus is a little soft, or that I wouldn’t necessarily consider to be a successful photograph, but it’s a wonderful remembrancer for me, and for the cast, and hopefully the audience beyond the cast will sense some kind of meaning in the photographs.

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The king’s Remembrancer, created by King Henry II in 1154 and Britain’s oldest judicial post, presides over the trial in a curly, white wig and robes.

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“The American Remembrancer and Universal Tablet of Memory” was a 1795 encyclopedia of biography and history.

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It is on loan from the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and will give visitors a first glimpse of the unique hoard discovered by a metal detectorist.

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