Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Recollect

Recollect (rek`ol*lekt") , transitive verb

[Prefix re- + collect: compare Latin recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Compare 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

Recollect (rek"ol*lekt) , noun

[See Recollet.]

(Ecclesiastical) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. — Addis & Arnold