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recollect |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Recollect \Rec"ol*lect\, n. [See {Recollet}.] (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also {Recollet}.] --Addis & Arnold. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Re-collect \Re`-col*lect"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + collect.] To collect again to gather what has been scattered; as to re-collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. --Barrow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Recollect \Rec`ol*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recollected}; imp. & p. p. {Recollecting}.] [Pref. re- + collect: cf L. recolligere recollectum to collect. Cf {Recollet}.] 1. To recover or recall the knowledge of to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. 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. The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood. --Dryden. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: recollect v : 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}, {remind}, {think}] [ant: {forget}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known
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