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
The power of retentive memory is exercised too much, the faculty of recollective memory is exercised too little, by the common modes of education.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Maria Edgeworth
Oh! with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain!
From A Walk from London to Fulham by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
The place is as pretty as ever, and it was impossible for the most hospitable luxury to do more for me, and with the most minute recollective attention to all my olden-times habits and ways.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.
From Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner
