Meaning of RECOLLECT
| Pronunciation: | | `reku'lekt
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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| | Antonyms: | | blank out, block, draw a blank, forget | | |
| | See Also: | | brush up, know, recognise, recognize, refresh, review, think back | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\Rec"ol*lect\, n. [See {Recollet}.] (Eccl.)
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
[Written also {Recollet}.] --Addis & Arnold.
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