recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
recollective
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a word derived from
recollect.
Example Sentences
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Mike Nichols' direction and Neil Simon's quip hand are faster than the most jaded playgoer's recollective eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in the unstoried solitudes of America, the traveller meets with nothing to awaken the sympathy of his recollective feelings.
From The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself by John Galt
This boy, who had such difficulty in learning a single Latin word, by repeating it forty times, showed in other instances, that he was by no means deficient in recollective memory.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
I mention this because Dugald Stewart once was curious to know what sort of memory I had, whether recollective or retentive.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
He possessed perfect conversational tact, with great powers of wit, humour, and all that felicity of allusion, which an uncommonly recollective memory, acting on stores of varied knowledge, can alone command.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Maria Edgeworth
