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See also: Recollect
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
- (US) enPR: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkt
Verb[edit]
recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple 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 had decided to go there.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to recall past events
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Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: rē-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA(key): /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) enPR: rē-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA(key): /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Verb[edit]
recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)
- (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
- To compose oneself.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected 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.
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