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

Mr. Linden turned, with a laughing, recollective glance— "Who speaks slightingly of the midge?—let him have a dose of syrup of poppies!"

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

Thaddeus felt the scene in his own recollective heart.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane

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)

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