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English Dictionary: recollect by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
recollect
v
  1. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "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"
    Synonym(s): remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
    Antonym(s): blank out, block, draw a blank, forget
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Recollect \Rec"ol*lect\, n. [See {Recollet}.] (Eccl.)
      A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
      [Written also {Recollet}.] --Addis & Arnold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Re-collect \Re`-col*lect"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + collect.]
      To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to
      re-collect routed troops.
  
               God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our
               scattered dust.                                       --Barrow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Recollect \Rec`ol*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recollected};
      imp. & p. p. {Recollecting}.] [Pref. re- + collect: cf. L.
      recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. {Recollet}.]
      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.
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