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/rˌɛkəlˈɛkt/ /rˌikəlˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

Recollect v. t. (past & past part. recollected; pres. part. recollecting)

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

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."

noun

Recollect n. (Written also Recollet) (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, an order of Franciscans.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recollect" Quotes from Famous Books

... comparatively easy; though whenever I incautiously looked down toward the deck, my head spun round so from weakness, that I was obliged to shut my eyes to recover myself. I do not remember much more. I only recollect my safe return to ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... not tempt him," said Dennis with simple conviction and a degree of feeling that might lead one to suppose that he was an indispensable element in the situation. "He will recollect his professional pride; he will remember that ...

— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder

... whose whole idea of the parental relation seems to be indulgence. No system of discipline, however mild, can be carried out when such a man wins the children's hearts and ruins their dispositions. It is he, isn't it? (I don't quite recollect the tale) who was sent, after death, to the warm regions, there to expiate his many sins of omission. And his adoring children, who had been hauled to heaven by the main strength, let us say, of their mother, found that the only thing they could do for him was to call ...

— Study of Child Life • Marion Foster Washburne

... him. He was not there much at other times, except when the Convention of 1829 for amending the State Constitution, was held in that city. He had a quarrel with Mr. Neal of Richmond Co., in consequence of some remarks upon the subject of Slavery. It came near terminating in a duel. I recollect that during the sitting of the Convention, my master asked me before several other gentlemen, if I wished to be free and go back to my own country. I looked at him with surprise, and ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... not recollect how many points I went from the wind; I must have bore down a pretty large course." Testimony of Captain J. Laforey, of the Ocean, ...

— The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence • A. T. Mahan

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