Rec`ol*lect" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recollected; imp. & p. p. Recollecting.] [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.
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Rec"ol*lect, n. [See Recollet.] Eccl.
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
[Written also
Recollet.]
Addis & Arnold.
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