anamnesis
- n the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient
- n the ability to recall past occurrences
- In a variety of fields-educational, moral political, social-anamnesis is busy these days dredging the pools.
- It is the familiar, autumnal Auden speaking: student of fleshly decay, writer of thank-you notes, urbane scold, expert at anamnesis, a celebrator of the numinous past that .
- As for the Catholic belief that the Mass re-enacts Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, the statement describes the Eucharistic service as an "anamnesis," or representation, of God's .