English

Adjective

reminiscential ‎(comparative more reminiscential, superlative most reminiscential)

1. Reminiscent.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Preface:

     Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but remembrance; that intellectual acquisition were but reminiscential evocation [...].

   • 1936, "Proust", Time, 29 Aug 1932:

     In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown.

2. (of a person) Having a tendency to reminisce
   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse.

     His curiosity had been more appeased than stimulated, but he felt none the less that he had "taken up" the dark-browed girl and her reminiscential mother and must face the immediate consequences of the act.