recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
has recollected
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present perfectof recollect (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The actual soul with its sensation and its concrete self-feeling turned into habit, has implicitly realised the 'ideality' of its qualities; in this externality it has recollected and inwardised itself, and is infinite self-relation.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
He has recollected himself, he was going for the doctor for poor Nancy, and this is the stream he was looking for.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
My father has recollected an engagement that takes our whole family away on Monday.
From Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
She will tell you why she ought to recollect his name, how she always has recollected his name till this precise moment.
From Tea-Table Talk by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Ney listened: "Is this Davoust at last," he exclaimed, "who has recollected me?" and he listened a second time.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
