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Recollect

//ɹɛkəˈlɛkt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.
Verb
  1. 1
    To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

    "I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there."

  2. 2
    To collect (things) together again. obsolete, transitive
  3. 3
    recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection wordnet
  4. 4
    To compose oneself.

    "The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).

Etymology 2

From re- + collect.

See also for "recollect"

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