Word Definition

Recollect

  1. A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
  2. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
  3. 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.