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/rˌɛkəlˈɛkt/ /rˌikəlˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

Recollect v. t. (past & past part. recollected; pres. part. recollecting)

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle. "The Tyrian queen... Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood."

noun

Recollect n. (Written also Recollet) (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, an order of Franciscans.

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"Recollect" Quotes from Famous Books

... dine with him, I first cut in pieces whatever was on his plate, next put it into a spoon, and then guided his hand to find the spoon. But his inability to sign his name did not arise merely from blindness: the fact was, that, from irretention of memory, he could not recollect the letters which composed his name; and, when they were repeated to him, he could not represent the figure of the letters in his imagination. At the latter end of November, I had remarked that these incapacities were rapidly growing upon him, and in consequence I ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... recollect the title just at once she had a "wretched memory for names"—and went over what ...

— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson

... as though scarcely knowing whether to take it seriously or otherwise. "Now I come to think of it I don't recollect seeing anything of the man after quite the first part of ...

— The Hunt Ball Mystery • Magnay, William

... Belorba is a terrible creature when she is roused. But you have talked enough. Shut your eyes, and don't trouble yourself to recollect. As you get stronger, it will all come back to you. Then you will be able to tell us, instead of asking ...

— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald

... a fine country, a succession of agreeable prospects, a free air, a good appetite, and the health I gain by walking; the freedom of inns, and the distance from everything that can make me recollect the dependence of my situation, conspire to free my soul, and give boldness to my thoughts, throwing me, in a manner, into the immensity of things, where I combine, choose, and appropriate them to my fancy, without restraint or fear. I dispose ...

— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

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