Category:Recollect

Rec`ol*lect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recollected; imp. & p. p. Recollecting.] Etym: [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.

Recollect Rec"ol*lect, n. Etym: [see recollet.] (eccl.)

Defn: a friar of the strict observance, -- an order of franciscans. [written also recollet.] Addis & arnold.