Definition of "recollect" []

• To recall to mind. See Synonyms at remember. (verb-transitive)
• To remember something; have a recollection. (verb-intransitive)

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• "She return'd on the 24th, the next day you may recollect is sacred to our Leather Saint, and is besides her birthday."
• "Carruthers observes: The ability to recollect is natural to everyone, but the procedure itself is formed by habitus, training and practice ...."
• "What the novel offers is an opportunity to "remember," to recollect from a perspective of relative safety a "moment in time," even if the memories are full of doom and foreboding."