recal
English edit
Noun edit
recal
Verb edit
recal (third-person singular simple present recals, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)
- Obsolete spelling of recall
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 84:
- And with this pleasing anticipation, she sat down to reconsider the past, recal the words, and endeavour to comprehend all the feelings of Edward; […]
- 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 175:
- Even the prophet does not appear to have seen the scroll, which the king saw. He recals it only, as Joseph did the Dream to the King of Egypt.
- 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 118:
- Adeline thought little about it at the time; but often—oh! how often—did her memory dwell upon those accents, and recal that beloved voice, when after-events came thickening like briers in her path of life.
- 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter IX, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, pages 127–128:
- […] so it happened now, that while in clear and precise order there seemed to flit over the soul of Sybil all that had passed, all that he had done, all that she felt—by some mystical process which memory could not recal, Sybil found herself pressed to the throbbing heart of Egremont, nor shrinking from the embrace which expressed the tenderness of his devoted love!
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Quite at Home”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 52:
- But it is not to recal this fancy, well as I remember it, that I recal the scene.
- Misspelling of recall.
References edit
"Recal" (two definitions), The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language by John Ash (London: Dilly & Baldwin, 1775) (not paginated).