Definition of "recollect"

recollect¹

/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/

verb
third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected
1. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

recollect²

/ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/

verb
third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected
1. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
2. To compose oneself.
  Quotations
  The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
  1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain, page 52