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recollect

verb
/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/UK/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/US/ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from recolligo
  2. borrowed from recollectus

Definitions

  1. To recall

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

    • 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.

  2. To collect (things) together again.

  3. To compose oneself.

    • The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.
    • The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the…

      A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at recollect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at recollect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at recollect

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA