Recollect

[rec·ol·lect]

To recollect is to remember. You might struggle to recollect your high school French but have no trouble recollecting every ingredient in your dad's cinnamon roll recipe.

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

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"


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

v. t.
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.

n.
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.


Recollect

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.

Recollect

Rec"ol*lect, n. [See Recollet.] (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] Addis & Arnold.

Recollection

Rec`ol*lec"tion (r?k`?l*l?k"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r'82collection.] 1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection. 3. That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. "One of his earliest recollections." Macaulay. 4. The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. [Archaic]
From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.
Syn. -- Reminiscence; remembrance. See Memory.

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

A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

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