recollect

Definition of recollect in English English dictionary: To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events; to recall the knowledge of; {v} to recover in the memory, to bethink, call to mind, gather again; To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember; If you recollect something, you remember it. Ramona spoke with warmth when she recollected the doctor who used to be at the county hospital His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later, were distinctly half-hearted. = remember. to be able to remember something; A friar of the Strict Observance, an order of Franciscans; 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; To recall; to collect ones thoughts again, especially about past events; 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"; {f} remember, bring back into memory, recall; To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops
recollection: The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance
Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
recollection: The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control
From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.
recollection: That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence
One of his earliest recollections. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
recollection: remembrance
recollection: {n} a recovery of notion, memory
recollecting: present participle of recollect
recollection: That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. One of his earliest recollections." Macaulay
recollection: The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance
recollection: If you have a recollection of something, you remember it. Pat has vivid recollections of the trip He had no recollection of the crash = memory
recollection: the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"
recollection: The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection
recollection: {i} memory, remembrance
recollection: That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence
recollection: something recalled to the mind
recollection: The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. [Archaic]
recollection: the ability to recall past occurrences
recollections: plural of recollection
recollects: third-person singular of recollect