recollect

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   recall knowledge from memory

   have a recollection

2. 2
   verb

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   To compose oneself.

   The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.

4. 4
   verb

   To collect (things) together again.

5. 5
   noun

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

Etymology

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