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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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"Recall" Quotes from Famous Books

... very interesting; the Pope remembered him, and expressed his interest in him and his work in America. The following extracts from letters to his brother George, written very soon after reaching Rome, recall an ...

— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... beside the port blind making a tantalizing effort to recall something. Where had he heard the name "Cleghorne?" He repeated ...

— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling

... skating, I would sometimes take refuge in a log cabin where half a tree would be burning on the broad hearth. I would sit in the ample chimney, and look at the stars through the great aperture through which the flames went roaring up. Ah, how well I recall the summer days, also, when with my gun I roamed at will through the woods of Maine!" In these memories, it is evident, many years, younger and older, are diffused in one recollection. For him, here rather ...

— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry

... flattered himself, that if, for the sake of continuing the siege, they should divide their forces, their weakness might then offer an occasion, either to the Capuans or himself, of engaging and defeating them. Rome was surprised, but not confounded. A proposal being made by one of the senators, to recall all the armies to succour Rome; Fabius(787) declared, that it would be shameful in them to be terrified, and forced to change their measures upon every motion of Hannibal. They therefore contented themselves ...

— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin

... They have so closely associated life with its accidents that they expect to see their departed friends in the costume of the time in which they best remember them, and feel as if they should meet the spirit of their grandfather with his wig and cane, as they habitually recall him to memory. ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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