meaning of recollect
1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
2. Reflexively, to compose ones self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect ones self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
3. A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
4. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I cant remember saying any such thing"; "I cant think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up
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Related Words
recollect | recollected | recollecting | recollection | recollective |
