recollect
see also: Recollect
Pronunciation Verb
Recollect
Noun
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see also: Recollect
Pronunciation Verb
recollect (recollects, present participle recollecting; past and past participle recollected)
- To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
- I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I was there.
- French: souvenir, rappeler
- German: erinnern, entsinnen, gedenken
- Portuguese: recordar, lembrar
- Russian: вспомина́ть
- Spanish: recordar
recollect (recollects, present participle recollecting; past and past participle recollected)
- (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
- To compose oneself.
- 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.
Recollect
Noun
recollect (plural recollects)
- A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.
- French: récollet
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