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

He possessed perfect conversational tact, with great powers of wit, humour, and all that felicity of allusion, which an uncommonly recollective memory, acting on stores of varied knowledge, can alone command.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria

"I shall never see you, Reuben,"—said he with a very pleasant recollective play of eye and lip,—"without thinking of a friend."

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

The power of retentive memory is exercised too much, the faculty of recollective memory is exercised too little, by the common modes of education.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

Faith started with a recollective look and asked what time it was; then sank down again.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan