Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Recollect \Rec"ol*lect\, n. [See {Recollet}.] (Eccl.)
   A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
   [Written also {Recollet}.] --Addis & Arnold.

Recollect \Rec`ol*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recollected};
   imp. & p. p. {Recollecting}.] [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.

Source : WordNet®

recollect
     v : recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't
         remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her
         last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do
         you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
         [syn: {remember}, {retrieve}, {recall}, {call back}, {call
         up}, {think}] [ant: {forget}]