recollectiveadj.

1647 C. Wyvill Certaine Serious Thoughts 10 Those recollective Thoughts to me, Most welcome, Sir, must ever be.

1657 H. P. Cressy Baker's Sancta Sophia II. iii. vii. 232 Pure recollective prayer.

1789 F. Burney Let. 27 Oct. in Diary & Lett. (1842) V. 66 A sort of recollective melancholy.

1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 86 After a recollective silence of some minutes.

1803 S. T. Coleridge Col. Lett. II. 1011 I have examined..my recollective Faculty.

1852 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) 255 For this purpose, we must often cast a recollective glance over our history.

1906 E. F. Benson in Windsor Mag. Jan. There was a certain amount of recollective disagreement as to the methods of scoring.

1998 J. F. Hay et al. in M. J. Intons-Peterson & D. L. Best Memory Distortions & Prevention iv. 59 Training recollection may be possible in..memory-impaired populations who show some degree of spared recollective abilities.

1738 S. Boyse Transl. & Poems i. 173 While recollective, as my Slumber broke, I mark'd the pleasing Presage he had spoke.

1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage II. xxii. 272 He possessed..an uncommonly recollective memory.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 94 Then she was fanciful, recollective, new.

1886 Sunday Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 5 Sept. 2/1 A little persuasion developed in him a recollective turn of mind.

1972 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 103 464 Menelaus is clearly in a reflective and recollective mood.

1998 Esquire (Nexis) July 70 He replaces the books and sits again in the straight-backed chair. He's recollective, thinking about the nuns from Savannah.

1769 A. Machay Pasquin I. iii. 74 The king recollectively looking round, perceived that the whole scene was dissipated.

1820 Examiner No. 658. 744/1 The sullen din of the recent storm still murmurs recollectively in our ears.

1978 Christian 4 322 Prayer now consists in meeting with the living Christ; eucharistically, recollectively, and by way of continuous personal guidance.

2000 Hamburg (Iowa) Reporter 16 Mar. 2/7 The small house, as I recall, was on Main St. where Sanford Hern lived later on. Recollectively, Hank Jaeckel.

1824 Examiner No. 658. 323/2 The pensive recollectiveness of the daughter.

1949 B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore p. xxxiv It is a land..where every man is caught in the giant web of his family inheritance and recollectiveness, his limited solidarities and local rivalries.

2005 R. B. Carson Missing Link p. xvi An effort at generational history which starts from the premise that the generation in question is ‘unique’ will forever run the risk of selective recollectiveness.