Definitions for: Recollect


[v] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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. --Dryden.


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

Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think

Antonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget

See Also: brush up, know, recognise, recognize, refresh, review, think back

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