recollect

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).

verb

1. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
   I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.

Etymology 2

re- + collect

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
2. To compose oneself.
   The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.
   The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair. 1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain, page 52