remembrancer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   literary or historical: a person or thing that reminds, commemorates, or preserves a memory

   The ruined tower remained a remembrancer of the city's former independence.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: any of several English officials responsible for recording or calling attention to pending public business

   The Exchequer remembrancer entered the debt in the official record.

Formed in Late Middle English from remembrance + the agent suffix -er. Remembrance came through Old French from remembrer, 'remember.' The official title arose because remembrancers kept records and reminded courts, the Exchequer, or civic bodies of matters requiring action.

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