different between memorial vs witness

English

Etymology

From Late Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??m???i.?l/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /m??mo??i.?l/
• Rhymes: -?????l

Noun

memorial (plural memorials)

1. (obsolete) Memory; recollection. [14th–18th c.]
2. Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. [from 14th c.]
3. A chronicle or memoir. [from 14th c.]
4. (now rare) A note or memorandum. [from 14th c.]
5. (chiefly Christianity) A service of remembrance or commemoration. [from 15th c.]
6. (law) A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• memorialize

Translations

Adjective

memorial (comparative more memorial, superlative most memorial)

1. Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
2. Contained in the memory.

3. (now rare) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Translations

Crimean Tatar

Noun

memorial

1. memorial.

Declension

Adjective

memorial

1. memorial.

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin memori?lis.

Noun

memorial m (plural memoriales)

1. memorial

Related terms

• memoria

Further reading

• “memorial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) witnesse

Etymology

From Middle English witnesse, from Old English ?ewitnes, equivalent to wit +? -ness. Cognate with Middle Dutch wetenisse (“witness, testimony”), Old High German gewiznessi (“testimony”), Icelandic vitni (“witness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?tn?s/, /?w?tn?s/
• Rhymes: -?tn?s, -?tn?s
• Hyphenation: wit?ness

Noun

witness (countable and uncountable, plural witnesses)

1. (uncountable) Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.

   She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, Scene ii^[1]:

     May we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
2. (countable) One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.

   As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.

   • c. 1589-93, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene ii^[7]:

     […] thyself art witness— I am betrothed.

   • c. 1786, Robert Hall, A Reverie

     Upon my looking round, I was a witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.

3. (countable, law) Someone called to give evidence in a court.
4. (countable) One who is called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document.

5. (countable) Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.

   • Laban said to Jacob, […] This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

witness (third-person singular simple present witnesses, present participle witnessing, simple past and past participle witnessed)

1. (transitive) To furnish proof of, to show.

   This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.

   • 1667: round he throws his baleful eyes / That witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 ll. 56-7
2. (transitive) To take as evidence.
3. (transitive) To see or gain knowledge of through experience.

   He witnessed the accident.

   • 1801, Robert Hall, On Modern Infidelity

     This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we be so unfortunate as ever to witness the triumph of modern infidelity

   • 1803 (first published), John Marshall, The Life of George Washington

     General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.

4. (intransitive, construed with to or for) To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
   • 1998, "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, volume 6, page 842

     Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.

5. To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.

   to witness a bond or a deed

Synonyms

• certify

Translations

Anagrams

• wisents