Hypertext Webster Gateway: "recollect"
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) 1.7 (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}]
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