单词 | recollecting |
释义 | recollectingn.1 1. The action or process of recalling or remembering; an instance of this, a recollection. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection minOE thoughtc1175 memorya1275 minninga1325 bethinking1340 record1340 recording1340 remembrancec1350 memoriala1382 rememberinga1382 minsing?a1400 rememorancea1438 mindingc1449 remembrancingc1449 rememorationc1449 resouvenancec1450 umbethinkingc1450 sovenance1477 memoration1562 reminiscence1589 recollecting1604 rememorating1606 recollection1633 evocation1646 recall1651 recordancy1654 anamnesis1656 membrance1827 reliving1919 the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection > instance of revocation1574 rememoration1597 recollecting1604 remembrancea1616 recollection1633 remembering1673 1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings 446 The recollecting of your former reason so lately and largely answered, I omit as tedious trifling. 1651 A. Ross Arcana Microcosmi ii. 113 Reminiscence is a recollecting by discourses and comparing of circumstances, the species which we had forgot. 1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. Pref. sig. c3v I prefixed no time for the recollecting of my Memory. 1759 J. Hanway Acct. Marine Soc. Pref. sig. A3v A Help to him both in the recollecting of his Sins, and the renewing of his holy Resolutions. 1863 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. I. 220 This mode of apprehending is neither more nor less than the recollecting of those things which the soul formerly saw when it journeyed along with the Gods. 1940 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 1 i. 101 The passivity of an awakened and re-emergent past may give way to the activity of a recollecting in which the past act is ‘relived’. 2002 M. A. Padmanabhan Trying to Grow 63 Historical events and their personifications serve as mental reference points in the recollecting of farming conditions. ΚΠ 1642 T. Matthew tr. Flaming Hart xiv. 166 This is a kind of recollecting, and, as it were, a shutting-vp of the Powers of the Soule, into her self. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). recollectingn.2 The action or process of collecting again; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1614 J. Day Dyall 150 A recollecting and gathering of the same matter, whereof our body was first composed. 1840 A. Barnes Notes Bk. Isaiah I. 391 Whether it is to be a literal re-collecting of the scattered tribes to the land of their fathers, has been a subject of debate. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 255 Besides the first gatherings..there has since been three ‘re-collectings’. 1985 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 112 449 Recent field collecting in Venezuela has resulted in the discovery of several new Ericaceae and the recollecting of one rare species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). recollectingadj. That recollects or recalls; relating to or caused by recollection. ΚΠ 1721 J. Mottley Antiochus iv. i. 37 My recollecting Thoughts Call up a thousand Symptoms to my View, That strengthen the Assertion of his Guilt. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. i. 3 Tears of recollecting sorrow..obstructed the last view of her native town. 1915 E. S. Moffat Hearts Steadfast 14 The moment's curious exaltation passed away and Alva was only a vigorous young pagan again, with a recollecting smile. 1989 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 19 129 The imaginative self, which usurps..upon the recollecting poet, may be in some sense ‘truer’ than the one it has left behind. 2001 E. Gidal Poetic Exhib. ii. 91 Wordsworth's configuration of his recollecting mind as a wanderer in a ‘wide museum’ echoes a long tradition of the representation and enactment of memory. Derivatives ˌrecoˈllectingly adv. ΚΠ 1792 F. Burney Jrnl. 25 May (1972) I. 168 ‘Y-e-s.’ he answered, hesitating & recollectingly. 1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter 221 Paul repeated mechanically, ‘a marriage without love!’ then recollectingly—‘a marriage without love! What was it Sylvia said about a marriage without love?’ 1998 Korea Times (Nexis) 26 May ‘Our marriage was never complete before,’ the mother recollectingly said with a beam. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11604n.21614adj.1721 |
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