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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

... him. Was it possible that she should answer such a question? Her eyes became suffused with tears, and she was unable to raise them from the ground. She could not recall her hand—not at that moment. She had come there to lecture him, to talk to him, to comfort him; and now she was unable to say a word. Did he know the secret of her heart; that secret which once and but once had involuntarily broken from out ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... preparing to shake off the bogy of militarism and fear, which had roosted so long on their shoulders like a Prussian old-man-of-the-sea. The Pan-Germans and the Annexationists were hot for war. The people alive could recall only three wars, the war against Denmark in 1864, which was settled in a few days and added the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein to the Prussian crown, and the war of 1866 in which Bavaria, Baden, ...

— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard

... who are charged with noting down the sacrifices performed in secret, and the virtues which are never known, who has ever heard of my Uncle Maurice? Perhaps I alone remember his name, and still recall his history. ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... Pacific archipelago emerge from the waves, and, in place of the long swell of the ocean, we picture the pleasing scenes of tropic lands, the strange floral growth of a past geological age, the animal forms which have since disappeared, with man already well advanced in culture: when we recall all this, and picture forth the surprising changes which then took place, the slowly subsiding land, the encroaching waters, and the resultant watery waste, with here and there a coral-girt island, the great volcanic uplift on the ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... down her pale cheeks; Mina took out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes, for her tears were falling upon her work, and so the two little sisters sat weeping each in her own window, as if all her happiness were gone past recall. ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

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