recollect
See also: Recollect
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”)
Pronunciation
Verb
recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)
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Translations
to recall past events
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Pronunciation
Verb
recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)
- (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
- To compose oneself.
- Dryden
- The Tyrian queen […] Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; then recollected stood.
- 1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)
- The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
- Dryden
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