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

Oh! with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain! 

From A Walk from London to Fulham by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)

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

It is a 250meditative poem of recollective tenderness wandering through the past; and no poem written on married love in England is more beautiful.

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