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recollective, a.|rɛkəˈlɛktɪv|
[f. recollect v.2 + -ive. Cf. collective.]
1. Relating to, characterized by, concerned with, recollection.
1789F. Burney Let. 27 Oct., A sort of recollective melancholy. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 86 After a recollective silence of some minutes. 1852Lynch Lett. to Scattered, etc. (1872) 255 For this purpose, we must often cast a recollective glance over our history.
2. Given to, distinguished by (the power of), occupied with, recollection.
1813M. Edgeworth Patronage (1833) II. xxii. 23 He possessed..an uncommonly recollective memory. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 151 Then she was fanciful, recollective, new. 1838Whewell in Todhunter Acc. Writ. (1876) II. 271 Live recollective of us.
Hence recoˈllectively adv., recoˈllectiveness.
1820Examiner No. 658. 744/1 The sullen din of the recent storm still murmurs recollectively in our ears. 1824Ibid. 323/2 The pensive recollectiveness of the daughter. |
