Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To use one's memory to become aware of (something); recall to mind.
- intransitive verb To remember something; have a recollection.
- idiom (recollect (oneself)) To become aware of one's immediate situation or purpose after a distraction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To collect or gather again; collect what has been scattered: often written distinctively re-collect: as, to
re-collect routed troops. - To summon back, as scattered ideas; reduce to order; gather together.
- To recover (one's self); collect (one's self): used reflexively in the past participle.
- To gather; collect.
- To come together again; reunite.
- To recover or recall knowledge of; bring back to the mind or memory; remember.
- Synonyms To call up, call to mind. See
remember and memory. - noun Same as
Recollet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
- transitive verb Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; ; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
- noun (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
recall ; tocollect one's thoughts again, especially about past events. - verb transitive, obsolete To collect (things) together again.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She return'd on the 24th, the next day you may recollect is sacred to our Leather Saint, and is besides her birthday.
Letter 245 2009
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Carruthers observes: The ability to recollect is natural to everyone, but the procedure itself is formed by habitus, training and practice ....
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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What the novel offers is an opportunity to "remember," to recollect from a perspective of relative safety a "moment in time," even if the memories are full of doom and foreboding.
Social Fiction 2007
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And throughout the book, what Christopher does and does not recollect, is of great concern for him.
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The shape of it, as you will recollect, is that of an irregular parallelogram, with a long projection running, out from the north-east corner.
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The first I recollect is that one spoken to Abraham, 'Fear not – I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.'
Queechy 1854
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It was not a case of recollecting; for we recollect, that is, recover to memory, what is not in our mind. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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"And I am morally certain I sha'n't recollect a word of it if I don't carry away some specimens to refresh my memory, and in that case he would never give me another."
Queechy 1854
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We no sooner kneel than we "recollect" something that should have been done, or something which had better be seen to at once.
The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971
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"Doubtless, your excellency will pardon a young man for speaking with diffidence on a subject, to recollect which is to cause pain."
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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