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Recollect

Recollect Meaning & Definition
Recollect Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Recollect?

[v] recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Recollect: call back | call up | recall | remember | retrieve | think

Related Terms | Find terms related to Recollect:

See Also | brush up | know | recognise | recognize | refresh | review | think back

Recollect In Webster's Dictionary

\Rec`ol*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recollected}; imp. & p. p. {Recollecting}.] [Pref. re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. {Recollet}.] 1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. 2. 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. --Dryden.
\Rec"ol*lect\, n. [See {Recollet}.] (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also {Recollet}.] --Addis & Arnold.

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