Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REC-OL-LECT', v.t. [re and collect; L. recolligo, recollectus.]

1. To collect again; applied to ideas that have escaped from the memory; to recover or call back ideas to the memory. I recollect what was said at a former interview; or I can not recollect what was said.
2. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring hack to the mind or memory. I met a man whom I thought I had seen before, but I could not recollect his name, or the place where I had seen him. I do not recollect you, sir.
3. To recover resolution or composure of mind. The Tyrian queen / Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man, / Then recollected stood. – Dryden. [In this sense, collected is more generally used.]