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

Affectionate children will easily extend their recollective memories in the service of their friends and companions.

From Practical Education, Volume II 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)

I mention this because Dugald Stewart once was curious to know what sort of memory I had, whether recollective or retentive.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

"Are you not aware of any class of recollective remarks or inquiries which now and then break forth, and which you invariably smother with a thick blanket of silence?"

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan