Recollect
[,rekə'lekt] or ['rɛkə'lɛkt]
Definition
(v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Recall (with effort), REMEMBER, call up, call to mind, call to remembrance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Recover, recal, remember, bethink, bring_to_mind, call_up, think_of
ANT:Forget, lose
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Definition
v.t. to remember: to recover composure or resolution (with reflex. pron.).—n. Recollec′tion act of recollecting or remembering: the power of recollecting: memory: that which is recollected: reminiscence.—adj. Recollec′tive having the power of recollecting.
v.t. to collect again.
n. a member of a congregation of a monastic order following a very strict rule—mostly of the Franciscan order forming a branch of the Observantines.—Also Rec′ollet.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v. To recall with additions something not previously known.
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Examples
- Recollect, we must scrunch or be scrunched. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I wish I could recollect more of it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- In order to answer this question, let us recollect what we have already established concerning the origin of government and political society. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He had had time to recollect all that he had read of the ways of men and women in the books at the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I recollect this same chambermaid was a pattern of town prettiness and smartness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You recollect the case of the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suffolk Bantam, Grummer? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her aunt Bertram had recollected her on this occasion with an unusual degree of wakefulness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They had passed the door of their inn, and walked a little way down the village, before they recollected the precise spot in which it stood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then I suddenly recollected his parting kiss. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At length every idea seemed to fail him; and, after standing a few moments without saying a word, he suddenly recollected himself, and took leave. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- So he roused himself, and began to undress, when he recollected he had left his watch on the table downstairs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The letter could not be found and no one recollected ever having seen it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A few tears--those were all she shed, before she recollected the many questions she longed to ask. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He will be, though, someday if he recollects the answers to all his questions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My dear, said Mrs. Shelby, recollecting herself, forgive me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If you only knew how I have loved that man--' Don't distress yourself by recollecting it, ma'am,' said the bodyguard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This idea settled me for that night, at least, and I fell asleep without dreaming of Meyler, and awoke almost without recollecting his existence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Stop a bit,' replied Sam, suddenly recollecting himself. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I was not long in recollecting Mrs. Steerforth's little parlour-maid, who had formerly worn blue ribbons in her cap. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But no,--recollecting herself--that could never be; my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me; I should not have been allowed to invite them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said-- Right, right! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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