recollect

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Why are you so upset But--recollect, Nastasia Philipovna."

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  1. transitive verb To recall to mind. See Synonyms at remember.
  2. intransitive verb To remember something; have a recollection.

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  • Music might assist in melting her new reserve You recollect, then, that I possess a voice It is all I have to recollect. —  The Lure of the Mask
  • And who can recollect, at the distance of twenty-five years, all that he once knew about his thoughts and his deeds, and that, during a portion of his life, when, even at the time, his observation, whether of himself or of the external world, was less than before or after, by very reason of the perplexity and dismay which weighed upon him,--when, in spite of the light given to him according to his need amid his darkness, yet a darkness it emphatically was? —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  • You recollect, also, that I became quite vexed at you for insisting that my drawing resembled a death's-head. —  The Short-story
  • Why are you so upset But--recollect, Nastasia Philipovna." —  The Idiot
  • And recollect--it was a YOUTH, at the particular age which is most helplessly susceptible to the distortion of ideas Prince S. was now no longer smiling; he gazed at the prince in bewilderment Alexandra, who had seemed to wish to put in her word when the prince began, now sat silent, as though some sudden thought had caused her to change her mind about speaking Evgenie Pavlovitch gazed at him in real surprise, and this time his expression of face had no mockery in it whatever What are you looking so surprised about, my friend?" —  The Idiot
 

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recollect:   Recollect ·  recollected
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Medieval Latin recolligere, recollēct-, from Latin, to gather up : re-, re- + colligere, to collect; see collect1.

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  1. from Latin recollectus, past participle of recolligere (later Italian raccogliere, raccorre, ricogliere, ricorre =Portuguese recolher =Spanish recolegir =F. recueillir, also récolliger), gather up again, recollect, from re-, again, + colligere, past participle collectus, gather, collect: see collect. Cf. recollect and recueil.
  2. In form and origin same as recollect, but in pronunciation and sense depending upon the noun recollection.
 

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/rɛkəˈlɛkt/
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