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Word Meanings - RECOLLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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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  • REVOKER
    One who revokes.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • CANCELLATE
    Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
  • CANCEL
    To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
  • REMEMBER
    re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
  • REMEMBERABLE
    Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
  • RESTORE
    To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
  • REASSEMBLE
    To assemble again.
  • SUPERSEDE
    To omit; to forbear. (more info) superior to, forbear, omit; super above + sedere to sit: cf. F. 1. To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace. 2. To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer. 3. To
  • RETAIN
    1. To belong; to pertain. A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle. 2. To keep; to continue; to remain. Donne.
  • CANCELLI
    The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities. (more info) 1. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the
  • CANCELLATION
    The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor. (more info) 1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
  • RECOLLECTION
    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
  • RECALCITRANT
    Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory. (more info) kick back; pref. re- re- + calcitrare to kick, fr. calx heel. Cf.
  • REVOKE
    1. To call or bring back; to recall. The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser. 2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special
  • RESTORER
    One who, or that which, restores.
  • RECOLLECT
    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
  • SUPERSEDEAS
    A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ. Blackstone.
  • CANCELIER; CANCELEER
    The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.
  • RECOLLECTIVE
    Having the power of recollecting. J. Foster.
  • MISREMEMBER
    To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
  • PRECALCULATE
    To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.
  • MISRECOLLECT
    To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
  • FOREREMEMBERED
    Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
  • MISRECOLLECTION
    Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
  • DISREMEMBER
    To fail to remember; to forget.

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