recollect

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/(UK)
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/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/(UK) · /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/(US) · /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/(UK) · /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/(US)

Definition of recollect

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. (obsolete, transitive)To collect (things) together again.
  3. 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

  1. 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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