recollect

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

• (UK) enPR: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA^(key): /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
• (US) enPR: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA^(key): /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkt

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.

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re- +‎ collect

• (UK) enPR: rē-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA^(key): /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/

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• (US) enPR: rē-kə-lĕktʹ, IPA^(key): /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

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

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