About The Word Recollect
Learn about the word Recollect to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Recollect definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Recollect
| 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. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Grantee ‐ a recipient…
- Medically ‐ involving medical practice; "medically trained nurses"; "medically…
- Unpresidential ‐ not presidential; "very unpresidential…
- Genital personality ‐ (psychoanalysis) the mature personality which is not dominated…
- Swedish mile ‐ a Swedish unit of length…
- Sponsor ‐ someone who supports or champions something [n] an advocate who…
- Hoot ‐ something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth…
- Lamenting ‐ vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression;…
- Aquarium ‐ a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish…
- Etiologic ‐ relating to the etiology of a disease; "etiological agent" [adj]…