different between recollect vs umbethink

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /??k??l?kt/
• (US) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /??k??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

1. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

Related terms

• collect
• recollection

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? collect

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /?i?k??l?kt/
• (US) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /?i?k??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
2. To compose oneself.

   • The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.

   • 1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)

     The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.

Anagrams

• collecter

English

Alternative forms

• unbethink, onbethink

Etymology

From Middle English umbethenken, from Old English ymbeþencan, ymbþencan (“to think about, consider, deliberate”), from ymb- (“around”) + þencan (“to think”), equivalent to um- +? bethink or umbe- +? think.

Verb

umbethink (third-person singular simple present umbethinks, present participle umbethinking, simple past and past participle umbethought)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) To recall to mind; remember; recollect.
2. (reflexive, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) To consider; think about; bethink.

Derived terms

• umbethinking

Scots

Alternative forms

• sco, wmbethink

Etymology

From Middle English umbethenken, from Old English ymbeþencan, ymbþencan (“to think about, consider, deliberate”), from ymb- (“around”) + þencan (“to think”).

Verb

umbethink (third-person singular present umbethinks, present participle umbethinkin, past umbethocht, past participle umbethocht)

1. To call to mind, remember
2. (reflexive) To consider, think about, bethink