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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MEM'ORIZE, v.t. To record; to commit to memory by writing.
They neglect to memorize their conquest of the Indians.
1. To cause to be remembered.
They meant to memorize another Golgotha.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-rized; -rizing) Date: 1834 to commit to memory ; learn by heart • memorizable adjective • memorization noun • memorizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) commit to memory. Derivatives: memorizable adj. memorization n. memorizer n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Memorize Mem"o*rize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Memorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Memorizing.] [See Memory.] 1. To cause to be remembered; hence, to record. [Obs.] They neglect to memorize their conquest. --Spenser. They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha. --Shak. 2. To commit to memory; to learn by heart.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(memorizes, memorizing, memorized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'memorise' If you memorize something, you learn it so that you can remember it exactly. He studied his map, trying to memorize the way to Rose's street. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Learn, learn by heart, commit to memory. 2. Cause to be remembered, hand down to memory by records, record.

Moby Thesaurus

commit to memory, con, get, get by heart, get letter-perfect, have by heart, know by heart, learn, learn by heart, learn verbatim, parrot, recite, remember, repeat, repeat by heart, retain, study, swot up