anamnesis

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These were revealed to men in a former state of existence, and are recovered by reminiscence (anamnesis) or association from sensible things.

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  1. noun Psychology A recalling to memory; recollection.
  2. noun Medicine The complete history recalled and recounted by a patient.

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  • The result of this anamnesis was binomial: DEUS could either reanimate the captain—Steergard—or take the physician from the embryonator and transport him to the operating room. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • As I am not an expert in Polish politics, the history of Polish resettlement in the country's new territories, or the putative phenomenon of cultural-historical anamnesis, I welcome all tentative explanations for this phenomenon. —  WordPress.com Top Blogs
  • The doctrine of anamnesis, which offers so strange a vista to speculative reverie, by its suggestion of an earlier existence in which our knowledge was acquired, took a strong hold upon his imagination; he would stop in the streets to gaze wistfully at babies, wondering whether their newly imprisoned souls were not replete with the wisdom stored up in a previous life In the acquisition of knowledge he was then as ever unrelaxing. —  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • These were revealed to men in a former state of existence, and are recovered by reminiscence (anamnesis) or association from sensible things. —  Meno
  • The aboriginal time he went aback to Uk to accommodated me, it was the best anamnesis we never balloon in our life. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Greek anamnēsis, from anamimnēskein, anamnē-, to remind : ana-, ana- + mimnēskein, to recall; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from Gr.ἀνάμνησις, a recalling to mind, from ἀναμιμνήσκειν, recall to mind, from ἀνά, again, + μιμνήσκειν, call to mind: see mnemonic. Cf. amnesia.
 

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