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
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.
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.
• collecter
Recollect (plural Recollects)
A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.
• 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
28 May 2025
(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; “an air of mystery”; “the house had a neglected air”; “an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate’s headquarters”; “the place had an aura of romance”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
