recollective

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Mike Nichols' direction and Neil Simon's quip hand are faster than the most jaded playgoer's recollective eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it is injured, remembrance is impaired; and, on the other hand, an accident has been known to improve the recollective faculties.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

This boy, who had such difficulty in learning a single Latin word, by repeating it forty times, showed in other instances, that he was by no means deficient in recollective memory.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

In this instance, it is obvious that we admire the retentive, local memory of Dr. Heberden, merely because it became recollective and useful.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

It is astonishingly swift, alive, and leaping; and it delays, as a stream, with great charm, when 277the emotion of the subject is quiet, recollective, or deep.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)