'Recollect' definitions:

Definition of 'recollect'

From: WordNet
verb
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" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget]

Definition of 'Recollect'

From: GCIDE
  • Recollect \Rec`ol*lect"\ (r[e^]k`[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recollected; p. pr. & vb. n. Recollecting.] [Pref. re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. Recollet.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Recollect'

From: GCIDE
  • Recollect \Rec"ol*lect\ (r[e^]k"[o^]l*l[e^]kt), n. [See Recollet.] (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] --Addis & Arnold. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'recollect'

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