RECOLLECT

remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

Etymology 2

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

(transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.

To compose oneself.

Anagrams

• collecter

Noun

Recollect (plural Recollects)

A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.

Anagrams

• collecter

Source: Wiktionary


Re`-col*lect", v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + collect.]

Definition: To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.

Rec`ol*lect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recollected; imp. & p. p. Recollecting.] Etym: [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. Etym: [See Recollet.] (Eccl.)

Definition: A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] Addis & Arnold.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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