Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To recall to mind. See Synonyms at remember.
- v. To remember something; have a recollection.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. Same as Recollet.
Wiktionary
- v. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
- v. transitive, obsolete To collect (things) together again.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
- v. Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; ; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
- n. (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
WordNet 3.0
- v. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Etymologies
- re- + collect (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin recolligere, recollēct-, from Latin, to gather up : re-, re- + colligere, to collect; see collect1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She return'd on the 24th, the next day you may recollect is sacred to our Leather Saint, and is besides her birthday.”
“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
“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.”
“And throughout the book, what Christopher does and does not recollect, is of great concern for him.”
“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.”
“The first I recollect is that one spoken to Abraham, 'Fear not – I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”
“It was not a case of recollecting; for we recollect, that is, recover to memory, what is not in our mind. ”
“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.”
“We no sooner kneel than we "recollect" something that should have been done, or something which had better be seen to at once.”
“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.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘recollect’.
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Do That Again! ~~ "Re-verbs"
List of verbs that begin with re-, meaning to repeat a specific action or process - reappraise, for example.
I'm also looking for words like repeat, replenish and rescind whose roots d...repeat, rescind, reappraise, refinish, restripe, reapply, resupply, refurbish, reposition, reoffend, redistribute, recoat and 202 more...
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Don't Forget
Forgetting words & remembrance words.
remember, recall, recollect, disremember, retain, forget, oubliette, mnemonic, mind, to bear in mind, amnesia, lethe and 1 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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revelation
synonyms of revelation or even catalysts leading revelation (moments of clarity).. whatever they may be (preferably nouns)
also experiences that are possible paths to enlightenment (v...rebirth, awakening, catharsis, revival, renewal, dawning, spring, reunion, recollect, exodus, epiphany, prophecy and 78 more...
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Mnemosyne
Elicityscapes. Re-re-running; get, put.
"'Member dat?"
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-...linkage, peg, ceremony, memo, mnemosyne, mnemonic, memento, anchor, compose, draw, picture, imagine and 101 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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