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/rˈikˌɔl/ /rɪkˈɔl/ Listen

verb

Recall v. t.

1.

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador. "If Henry were recalled to life again."

2.

To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree. "Passed sentence may not be recall'd."

3.

To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.

noun

Recall n.

1.

A calling back; a revocation. "'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall."

2.

(Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.

3.

(Political Science)

(a)

The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.

(b)

Short for recall of judicial decisions, the right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.

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Etymology of 'Recall'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recall" Quotes from Famous Books

... is in allusion to Scott's recall from the Indian War in 1836. General Jackson died the 8th of June, 1845, General Scott being then at West Point. He was president of the Board of Examiners, which was in session when the news was received. He at once arose, and, ...

— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... surprising distinctness to the opposite roof. At this moment some words fell on my ear. The door of the dining hall had just been opened to let in the fresh air, and I heard the following conversation: "Do you recall having taken part in the murder of Ulmet Elias on the twentieth of this month?" Some unintelligible words followed. "Close the door, Madoc!" said the bailiff; "the woman is ill." I heard no more. As I stood with my head resting against the balusters, a sudden ...

— The Dean's Watch - 1897 • Erckmann-Chatrian

... Chinese or Japanese paper which Rembrandt generally used, has sometimes gone very yellow and spotted, but oftener it has the fine mellowness of age. We treat it with respect, almost with reverence, for we recall that these very sheets of paper were dampened and laid upon the etched plate, already prepared by the hands of the great etcher himself. Each impression he pulled was as carefully considered as the biting of the copper plate. He varied the strength of the ink, the method ...

— Rembrandt and His Etchings • Louis Arthur Holman

... mission altogether. A few undeviating friends of that field of missionary enterprise, however, opposed the measure." Their persuasions prevailed, and after special and earnest prayer to God, instead of a recall, "letters of encouragement were written to the missionaries. And while the vessel which carried these letters was on her passage to Tahiti, another ship was conveying to England not only the news of the entire overthrow of idolatry, but also the rejected idols of the people. Thus was fulfilled ...

— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston

... dwellers in more civilised lands. It is the Crimea, children, and the Crimea on a broiling, stifling August day. At the present time when we speak and think of that dreadful war and the sufferings it entailed, it is above all the winters there that we recall with the greatest horror—those terrible 'Crimean winters.' But those who went through it all have often assured me that the miseries of the summers—of some part of them at least—were in their way quite as great, or worse. What could be much ...

— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth

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