recollect

Definition

To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).

Example Sentences

• "I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there."
• "I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths."

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