Defn: To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-
collect routed troops.
God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust.
Barrow.
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.
RECOLLECTION
Rec`ol*lec"tion (rk`l*lk"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. récollection.]
1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.
3. That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. "One of his earliest recollections." Macaulay.