anamnesis

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The ability to recall past events; recollection.
2. (countable, uncountable)The remembrance and celebration of God’s works by the liturgy of the church.
3. (countable, uncountable)A patient's account of their medical history.
4. (countable, uncountable)The recollection of innate knowledge acquired before birth, according to Plato’s theory of epistemology.

   “1990, Stewart Umphrey, Zetetic Skepticism, Longwood Academic, page 13, There are also reasons for thinking that Socratic anamnesis, inquiry and learning are quite unlike anamnesis, inquiry and learning as ordinarily understood.”

5. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one’s authority.