What does recollect mean?
Definitions for recollect
ˌrɛk əˈlɛktrec·ol·lect
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word recollect.
Princeton's WordNet
remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, thinkverb
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"
Wiktionary
recollectverb
To collect (things) together again.
Etymology: From recollectus, from recolligo
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To RECOLLECTverb
Etymology: recollectus, Lat.
It did relieve my passion much;
More than light airs and recollected terms
Of these most brisk and giddy paced times. William Shakespeare.Recollect every day the things seen, heard, or read, which made any addition to your understanding. Isaac Watts, Logick.
The Tyrian queen
Admir’d his fortunes, more admir’d the man;
Then recollected stood. John Dryden, Æneis.Now that God hath made his light radiate in his word, men may recollect those scattered divine beams, and kindling with them the topicks proper to warm our affections, enflame holy zeal. Boyle.
Webster Dictionary
Recollectverb
to recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember
Recollectverb
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
Recollectnoun
a friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans
Etymology: [See Recollet.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Recollect
rē-kol-ekt′, v.t. to collect again.
Recollect
rek-ol-ekt′, v.t. to remember: to recover composure or resolution (with reflex. pron.).—n. Recollec′tion, act of recollecting or remembering: the power of recollecting: memory: that which is recollected: reminiscence.—adj. Recollec′tive, having the power of recollecting.
Recollect
rek′ol-ekt, n. a member of a congregation of a monastic order following a very strict rule—mostly of the Franciscan order forming a branch of the Observantines.—Also Rec′ollet.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of recollect in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of recollect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of recollect in a Sentence
It doesn't really matter what I recollect, i'm not qualified to answer the question.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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- تذكرArabic
- recordar, rememorarCatalan, Valencian
- erindreDanish
- erinnern, gedenken, entsinnenGerman
- αναπολώGreek
- palauttaa mieleensä, muistellaFinnish
- rappeler, souvenirFrench
- meòraich, bi cuimhne aig, cuimhnichScottish Gaelic
- emlékezik, emlékszikHungarian
- 想起, 思い起す, 思い出すJapanese
- teneo, recordor, reminiscorLatin
- zich herinnerenDutch
- recordar, lembrarPortuguese
- вспоминать, вспомнитьRussian
- erinra, komma ihåg, minnas, dra sig till minnesSwedish
- דערמאָנענ זיךYiddish
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