remembrancer

See also: Remembrancer

English

Etymology

remembrance +‎ -er

Noun

remembrancer (plural remembrancers)

  1. A person who reminds someone.
    • 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, 1985, p.77:
      I wonder, Dick, you did not put me in mind of sending for my own mattresses - But, if I had not been an ass, I should not have needed a remembrancer.
    • 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 387:
      Tribal chieftains in Africa had had official remembrancers about them; I was Ulick's remembrancer.
  2. A memento or souvenir.
    • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, ch 3:
      Near a fortnight had passed before I attempted to restrain their affliction; for premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
  3. A recorder, or municipal judge.
  4. An officer of exchequer.
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