Definitions for recollect
ˌrɛk əˈlɛktrec·ol·lect

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. recollectverb

   To collect (things) together again.

2. Etymology: From recollectus, from recolligo

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. To RECOLLECTverb

   Etymology: recollectus, Lat.

   1. To recover to memory.

   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.

   2. To recover reason or resolution.

   The Tyrian queen
   Admir’d his fortunes, more admir’d the man;
   Then recollected stood. John Dryden, Æneis.

   3. To gather what is scattered; to gather again.

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Recollectverb

   to recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember

2. 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

3. Recollectnoun

   a friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans

4. Etymology: [See Recollet.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Recollect

   rē-kol-ekt′, v.t. to collect again.

2. 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.

3. 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.

How to pronounce recollect?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of recollect in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of recollect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of recollect in a Sentence

1. Tom Hayes:

   It doesn't really matter what I recollect, i'm not qualified to answer the question.

2. Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

   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

3. Plato:

   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.

4. Joseph Addison:

   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.

5. Alexander Hamilton:

   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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