recollect

Verb (1)

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

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.
   • I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458

Verb (2)

UK/ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/US/ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To collect (things) together again.
2. To compose oneself.
   • The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.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 Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain, page 52

Noun capitalized: Recollect

Recollect (plural Recollects)

1. A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.