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

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

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

Which was said with a little recollective patient sigh.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

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.