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[syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Recollect \Rec"ol*lect\ (r[e^]k"[o^]l*l[e^]kt), n. [See
Recollet.] (Eccl.)
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
[Written also Recollet.] --Addis & Arnold.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Re-collect \Re`-col*lect"\ (r[=e]`k[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), v. t. [Pref.
re- + collect.]
To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to
re-collect routed troops.
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God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our
scattered dust. --Barrow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Recollect \Rec`ol*lect"\ (r[e^]k`[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Recollected; p. pr. & vb. n. Recollecting.] [Pref.
re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect.
Cf. Recollet.]
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1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to
the mind or memory; to remember.
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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.
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The Tyrian queen . . .
Admired his fortunes, more admired the man;
Then recollected stood. --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
recollect
v 1: 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"
[syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call
up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block,
draw a blank, forget]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously
known.