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recollect

[ rek-uh-lekt ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.

    Antonyms: forget

  2. to absorb (oneself ) in spiritual meditation, especially during prayer.


verb (used without object)

  1. to have a recollection; remember.

recollect

/ ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt /

verb

  1. when tr, often takes a clause as object to recall from memory; remember
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌrecolˈlective, adjective
  • ˌrecolˈlectively, adverb
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Other Words From

  • recol·lective adjective
  • recol·lective·ly adverb
  • recol·lective·ness noun
  • misrec·ol·lect verb
  • nonrec·ol·lective adjective
  • self-recol·lective adjective
  • unrec·ol·lective adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of recollect1

First recorded in 1550–60; from Medieval Latin recollēctus, past participle of recolligere “to remember, recollect” ( Latin: “to gather up again”); re-, collect 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of recollect1

C16: from Latin recolligere to gather again, from re- + colligere to collect 1
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Example Sentences

By the end, I could probably recollect every blade of grass.

Without it, we couldn’t form and recollect distinct and meaningful memories since many aspects of any two memories would otherwise overlap.

Once these memories are formed, a partial prompt can easily have you recollect them.

Within it, she recollected her early years, spinning the dispersed wool of her babyhood into the tangled threads of her childhood.

However, in some cases, memory can become pathologically persistent, as when the memory of a traumatic experience—like an assault or a soldier’s time in combat—is recollected incessantly.

I stooped down and asked him how he felt himself, but he made no answer, and evidently did not recollect me.

They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

He does not recollect the duty the engine performed with the cylindrical boilers.

We recollect sharing in the despondency, and even despair, which paralysed our party.

Hartledon sent his thoughts back, endeavouring to recollect what could have given rise to this charge.

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