recollect
verb
[ ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt ]
• remember (something); call to mind.
• "he could not quite recollect the reason"
Similar:
remember,
recall,
call to mind,
think of,
think back to,
cast one's mind back to,
look back on,
reminisce about,
hark back to,
summon up,
revive the memory of,
mind,
bethink oneself of,
Origin:
early 16th century (in the sense ‘gather’): from Latin recollect- ‘gathered back’, from the verb recolligere, from re- ‘back’ + colligere ‘collect’.
recollect
verb
• bring oneself back to a state of composure.
• "he had a look round, recollected himself, and prepared for the day"
• collect or gather together again.
• "the blood is thence recollected dorsally into further arterial vessels"
Origin:
early 17th century: later form of recollect1, from re- ‘once more’ + the verb collect1.
Recollet
noun
• a member of a reformed branch of the Franciscan order, founded in France in the late 16th century.
Origin:
from French récollet, from medieval Latin recollectus ‘gathered together’, expressing a notion of concentration, and absorption in thought.
