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

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

But in the unstoried solitudes of America, the traveller meets with nothing to awaken the sympathy of his recollective feelings.

From The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself by Galt, John

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)

At least if you are as good at making work for yourself in some cases as you are in others,' she said with a queer little recollective gleam in her face.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan