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/rˌɛkəlˈɛkt/ /rˌikəlˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

Recollect v. t. (past & past part. recollected; pres. part. recollecting)

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

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."

noun

Recollect n. (Written also Recollet) (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, an order of Franciscans.

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"Recollect" Quotes from Famous Books

... to account for the reappearance of Jackson. The reader may recollect that he made sail in the boat, leaving Newton on the island which they had gained after the brig had been run on shore and wrecked. When the boat came floating down with the tide, bottom up, Newton made sure that Jackson had been upset and drowned; instead ...

— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... at once, I did recollect! I did remember that I had mentioned the name of the baroness that very morning to Elisabeth, when the baroness passed us in the East Room! I had not told the truth—I had gone with a lie on my lips ...

— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough

... "I'll try and get some ice cream for you Annie." And off she ran to her mother's dwelling. "Mother," said she, as she entered the house, "do you recollect that half dollar father gave me the last time ...

— Friends and Neighbors - or Two Ways of Living in the World • Anonymous

... fellow-creature. He could not bear this ghoul of solitude. There was no room for him between these great millstones. They pressed upon him till he felt they were crushing him to death between them. In vain he endeavored to compose himself, to recollect himself. But exhaustion gradually did for him what he could not do ...

— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley

... masters of song are, Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Byron, and he tells us that only the merest fraction of Wordsworth’s work is real poetry. Anna Seward would seem to have agreed with the selection of these names, if we substitute Pope for Byron. However, the latter was, we must recollect, only born in 1788. She would surely have welcomed Mr. Austin’s estimate of Wordsworth! Anna Seward considered Southey’s genius, beyond comparison, superior to that of Wordsworth. She wrote in 1796, “This is the age of wonders. A great one has lately arisen in the poetical world—the most extraordinary ...

— Anna Seward - and Classic Lichfield • Stapleton Martin

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