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English Dictionary: reminiscent by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reminiscent
adj
  1. serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
    Synonym(s): evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reminiscent \Rem`i*nis"cent\ (r?m`?-n?s"sent), n.
      One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording
      reminiscences.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reminiscent \Rem`i*nis"cent\ (-sent), a. [L. reminiscens,
      -entis, p. pr. of reminisci to recall to mind, to recollect;
      pref. re- re + a word akin to mens mind, memini I remember.
      See {Mind}.]
      Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having
      remembrance; reminding one of something.
  
               Some other of existence of which we have been
               previously conscious, and are now reminiscent. --Sir W.
                                                                              Hamilton.
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