"Doubtless, your excellency will pardon a young man for speaking with diffidence on a subject, to recollect which is to cause pain."Ī Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971 We no sooner kneel than we " recollect" something that should have been done, or something which had better be seen to at once. "And I am morally certain I sha'n't recollect a word of it if I don't carry away some specimens to refresh my memory, and in that case he would never give me another." It was not a case of recollecting for we recollect, that is, recover to memory, what is not in our mind. The first I recollect is that one spoken to Abraham, 'Fear not – I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.' The Position of Cyprus in the Empire 1904 The shape of it, as you will recollect, is that of an irregular parallelogram, with a long projection running, out from the north-east corner. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro: Questions 2000 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.Īnd throughout the book, what Christopher does and does not recollect, is of great concern for him. Īrchitecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008 She return'd on the 24th, the next day you may recollect is sacred to our Leather Saint, and is besides her birthday.Ĭarruthers observes: The ability to recollect is natural to everyone, but the procedure itself is formed by habitus, training and practice. verb recall knowledge from memory have a recollection.verb transitive, obsolete To collect (things) together again.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb To recall to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.transitive verb Reflexively, to compose one's self to recover self-command - sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.transitive verb To recover or recall the knowledge of to bring back to the mind or memory to remember.noun (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, - an order of Franciscans.To recover (one's self) collect (one's self): used reflexively in the past participle.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To summon back, as scattered ideas reduce to order gather together. To collect or gather again collect what has been scattered: often written distinctively re-collect: as, to re-collect routed troops.To recover or recall knowledge of bring back to the mind or memory remember.idiom ( recollect (oneself)) To become aware of one's immediate situation or purpose after a distraction.intransitive verb To remember something have a recollection.intransitive verb To use one's memory to become aware of (something) recall to mind.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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