Definition of Recollect

1. Verb. Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection. "They won't Recollect the story "; "Call up memories"


Definition of Recollect

1. v. t. To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops.

2. v. t. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

3. n. A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

Definition of Recollect

1. Verb. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recollect

1. collect [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: collect

Medical Definition of Recollect

1. A friar of the Strict Observance, an order of Franciscans. Alternative forms: Recollet. See: Recollet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recollect

recoils
recoin
recoinage
recoinages
recoined
recoining
recoinings
recoins
recollapse
recollapsed
recollapses
recollapsing
recollar
recollared
recollaring
recollect
recollected
recollecting
recollection
recollections
recollective
recollects
recollet
recollets
recollide
recollided
recollides
recolliding
recollimated
recollimation

Literary usage of Recollect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Recollect, killed by Kickapoos, Illinois. 1680 Twenty-two Franciscans killed in general massacre by revolted Pueblos, New Mexico, and Arizona, viz. ..."

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