Mĕm'oir, n.

(mĕm'wor, or mēm'wor) (Synop., § 130), n. [Fr. mémoire, m., memorandum, from mémoire, f., memory; Pr., Sp., Pg., It., & Lat. memoria. See MEMORY.] 1. A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions in which the narrator bore a part; a history lacking method and completeness. 2. A memorial of any individual; a biography; often a biography written without special regard to method and completeness. 3. An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.