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recollect

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re-col⋅lect

  [ree-kuh-lekt]
Use recollect in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to collect, gather, or assemble again (something scattered).
2. to rally (one's faculties, powers, spirits, etc.); recover or compose (oneself).
Origin:
1605–15

rec⋅ol⋅lect

  [rek-uh-lekt]
–verb (used with object)
1. to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
2. to absorb (oneself) in spiritual meditation, esp. during prayer.
–verb (used without object)
3. to have a recollection; remember.
Origin:
1550–60; < ML recollēctus, ptp. of recolligere to remember, recollect (L: to gather up again); see re-, collect 1

Related forms:
rec⋅ol⋅lec⋅tive, adjective
rec⋅ol⋅lec⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
rec⋅ol⋅lec⋅tive⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. See remember.

Antonyms:
1. forget.
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rec·ol·lect   (rěk'ə-lěkt')   
v.   rec·ol·lect·ed, rec·ol·lect·ing, rec·ol·lects

v.   tr.
To recall to mind. See Synonyms at remember.
v.   intr.
To remember something; have a recollection.

[Medieval Latin recolligere, recollēct-, from Latin, to gather up : re-, re- + colligere, to collect; see collect1.]
rec'ol·lec'tive adj.
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Word Origin & History

recollect 
1559, from L. recollectus, pp. of recolligere, lit. "to collect again," from re- "again" + colligere "gather" (see collect).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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