recollect Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
    retrieve; remember; recall; call back; think; call up.
    • 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

WordNet

Rec`ol*lect" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. Recollet.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Recollected; imperfect & past participle Recollecting
Definitions
  1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
  2. 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.
    The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood. Dryden.
Rec"ol*lect noun
Etymology
See Recollet.
Definitions
  1. (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. Written also Recollet. Addis & Arnold.

Webster 1913