Definitions for Recollect

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Recollect rec·ol·lect

Spelling: [rek-uh-lekt]

IPA: /ˌrɛk əˈlɛkt/

Recollect is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in Recollect (cceellort).

Definitions for Recollect

verb (used with object)

1. to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
2. to absorb (oneself) in spiritual meditation, especially during prayer.
3. to collect, gather, or assemble again (something scattered).
4. to rally (one's faculties, powers, spirits, etc.); recover or compose (oneself).

verb (used without object)

1. to have a recollection; remember.

Origin of Recollect

1550-60; Medieval Latin recollēctus, past participle of recolligere to remember, recollect (Latin: to gather up again); see re-, collect

Examples for Recollect

Do you not recollect that only two months ago you scolded me, and ridiculed my plans?

But it was all so confused, I can recollect only some parts of it.

Our whole passage was stormy, and lasted seventy days, as near as I can recollect.

Damme, why did not you come to dine with us that day, now I recollect it?

We should recollect also that the season of peace is best adapted to these preparations.

Come, Caroline, recollect all the benefit must not lie on one side.

I recollect—he has spoken to me of the Mortons, but vaguely—I forget what.

But if you recollect, dear mother, the very next day I confessed the truth to you.

For some moments he had been listening intently, trying to recollect something.

She felt a great longing that Father Antoine should recollect her.