recollect
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Definition of recollect
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
“I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.”
“I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths.”
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verb
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To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
“I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.”
“I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths.”
- (obsolete, transitive)To collect (things) together again.
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To compose oneself.
“The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.”
“The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.”
noun
- A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).
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