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▪ I. recollection1|riːkəˈlɛkʃən|
[a. F. récollection, or ad. med.L. recollectiōn-em, n. of action f. recolligĕre recollect v.1 Now taken as f. re- 5 a + collection.]
1. A gathering together again.
1598J. Manwood Forest Lawes To Rdr., The residue of his paines bestowed on his said first collection, and not set forth in his said recollection. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 93 The incineration and dissipation of this dust shall haue a recollection in the day of Resurrection. 1673Marvell Reh. Transp. II. 37 He has diffused his poyson so publickly..that it might be beyond his own recollection. 1728Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead I. 230 We may ask in what Manner this Recollection of Parts..from indefinite distances is made. 1868Kingsley Hermits 127 Without habitual collection and re-collection of our own selves from time to time no great purpose is carried out.
†2. A recapitulation. Obs.
1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. Introd. iii. 43 Hereby also you shall have a summary Recapitulation, or Recollection of the..subject-matter of every book. 1659Pearson Creed To Rdr., Lastly, by a recollection of all, briefly to deliver the sum of every particular truth.
▪ II. recollection2|rɛkəˈlɛkʃən|
[The same word as prec. in special senses: cf. recollect v.2 In sense 1 after F. récollection.]
1. Religious or serious concentration of thought; † conduct regulated by such concentration.
1642R. Carpenter Experience i. viii. 26 An excellent Sanctity, and a spotlesse Recollection of life, in their Orders of Religion. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. Relat. v. 308 An Internal Recollection, which is perceived in the Soul. 1764Fletcher Let. Wks. 1795 VII. 127 Recollection is a dwelling within ourselves; a being abstracted from the creature and turned towards God. a1773A. Butler Trav. France & Italy (1803) 221 He..performs the sacred office with great recollection and devotion. 1869F. B. A. Wilberforce Lives Domin. Mission. Japan 158 The modesty of his exterior was the sign of his interior recollection.
2. Composure, calmness of mind, self-possession.
1757Borlase in Phil. Trans. L. 505, I do not hear of any person in those parts, who..had recollection enough to attend to the motion of the waters. 1788Disinterested Love II. 110 He was nearly as much agitated as myself, but sooner came to his recollection.
3. The act of recalling to the memory; the mental operation by which objects or ideas are revived in the mind; also, an instance of this.
Sometimes contrasted with remembrance: see quot. 1690.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xiii. ⁋1 Upon every one of these Wooden Patterns I use to write..the number of Punches to be Forged of that Size, lest afterwards I might be troubled with Recollections. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xix. §1 The same Idea, when it again recurs without the Operation of the like Object on the external Sensory, is Remembrance; if it be sought after by the Mind, and with Pain and Endeavour found, and brought again in view, it is Recollection. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 311 The pleasing spectacle at once excites Such recollection of our own delights. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 275 The power of recollection seems to depend on the intensity or largeness of the perception.
attrib.1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 247 The principal circumstances on which the demand for recollection-time is apt to depend.
b. The power of recalling to the mind; the sphere or period over which such power extends; the memory.
1732Pope Ep. Cobham 47 As the last image..(Tho' past the recollection of the thought,) Becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 66/2 Did you ever, to the best of your recollection, see Meer Hussud Alli before yesterday? 1828Scott F.M. Perth xix, The scene of the preceding night ran in his recollection. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xx. 336 The extraordinary coldness of the weather..is in the recollection of everybody. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 41 It is likely that modern recollection has been weakened by habitual reliance upon..manuscript and print.
4. A thing or fact recalled to the mind; the memory of something.
1781Cowper Conversat. 515 The recollection, like a vein of ore, The farther traced, enrich'd them still the more. 1815Scott Guy M. l, I have an indistinct remembrance..; but it is an imperfect and confused recollection. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. xiv. (1858) 473 Nor can the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ever cease to be bound up with the recollections of the Crusades. 1883Maine Early Law & Custom ix. 292 A recollection or a fresh tradition.
5. pl. A message expressing recollection of, or a desire to be recollected by, another.
1816Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 109 Our compliments to Sir Arthur and Clarke; most particular remembrances to Mrs. Fletcher... Recollections to the Doyles. |