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Definition of Recollective
1. Adjective. Good at remembering. "Tenacious memory"
Also: Aware, Mindful
Derivative terms: Recollect, Retain, Retain, Retentiveness, Retentivity, Tenaciousness
Antonyms: Unretentive
Definition of Recollective
1. a. Having the power of recollecting.
Definition of Recollective
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to recollection. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recollective
Literary usage of Recollective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Loisette" Exposed: (Marcus Dwight Larrowe, Alias Silas Holmes, Alias by George S. Fellows, Marcus Dwight Larrowe (1888)
"A.—Analysis is applied to words or ideas between which such a relation exists,
as a master of recollective Analysis can discover. Synthesis applies where no ..."
2. Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1855)
"It has often been observed that a recollective and a retentive memory are seldom
... To speak accurately, we must remark that retentive and recollective ..."
3. Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1835)
"It has often been observed that a recollective and a retentive memory are seldom
... To speak accurately, we must remark that retentive and recollective ..."
4. Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton (1888)
"For all the purposes of this present discourse, imagination may be divided into
imagination recollective, and imagination creative. Imagination recollective ..."
5. Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1811)
"To speak accurately, we must remark, that retentive and recollective memories
are but relative terms; the recollective memory must be retentive of all that ..."
6. The Guide to Knowledge. edited by William Pinnock (1836)
"It has been observed, that a recollective and retentive memory are seldom found
... To speak accurately, we mutt remark, that retentive and recollective ..."
7. Essays on Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1815)
"To speak accurately, we must remark, that retentive and recollective memories
are but relative terms ; the recollective memory must be retentive of all that ..."
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