verb
definition
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
example
I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.
verb
definition
To collect (things) together again.
definition
To compose oneself.
Examples of recollected in a Sentence
He became silent, and I recollected myself only when it was too late.
But it is to be recollected that, according to Hume, an idea is actually a representation or individual picture, not a notion or even a schema, and that he never claims to be able to extract the predicate of a geometrical judgment by analysis of the subject.
Lastly it should be recollected that the entire body of the fragments of tradition and literature belonging to northern Israel has come down to us through the channel of Judaean recensions.
But while admitting that his means were sometimes unprincipled, it must be recollected that his real ends were high and noble.
During the reign of Edward, the title of superintendent was often adopted instead of bishop, and it will be recollected that John Knox was an honoured worker in England with the title of superintendent during this reign.
The Conservative government, which thus fell, will be chiefly recollected for its remarkable concession to democratic principles by the passage of the Reform Act of 1867; but it deserves perhaps a word of praise for its conduct of war, a distant and unusual war.
On the following day, in virtue of a divinely induced forgetfulness, Ptolemy recollected nothing but the loyalty of the Jews to his throne.
Coleridge realizes that poetry works in exactly the same way, and comes up with his notion of emotion recollected in tranquility.
If Meckel's proposition is so far qualified, that the comparison of adult with embryonic forms is restricted within the limits of one type of organization; and if it is further recollected, that the resemblance between the permanent lower form and the embryonic stage of a higher form is not special but general, it is in entire accordance with modern embryology; although there is no branch of biology which has grown so largely, and improved its methods so much since Meckel's time, as this.
I recollected myself and drove away that thought only when I found myself glowing with anger, but I did not sufficiently repent.
William Wordsworth described it as " emotions recollected in tranquility ".
The occasion deserves to be recollected as one on which a prime minister, who was not also chancellor of the exchequer, has himself proposed the budget of the year.
The first session of the Aberdeen administration will be chiefly recollected for the remarkable budget which Gladstone brought forward.