recal
English
Verb
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; […]
- 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.
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- Misspelling of recall.
References
"Recal" (two definitions), The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language by John Ash (London: Dilly & Baldwin, 1775) (not paginated).
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