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verb

Collect v. t. (past & past part. collected; pres. part. collecting)

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. "A band of men Collected choicely from each country." "'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect."

To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. (Archaic.) "Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected."

To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.

Synonyms: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.

Collect v. i.

To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

To infer; to conclude. (Archaic) "Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons."

noun

Collect n. A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. "The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse."

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"Collect" Quotes from Famous Books

... with her work in her clumsy manner, and never stopped until she had finished her winter home. Then she knew she must go out and collect some food. ...

— Rataplan • Ellen Velvin

... it?" asked Jean Jacques, seeing Stolphe in the hands of two men, and hearing the snap of steel. "Wanted for firing a house for insurance—wanted for falsifying the accounts of a Land Company—wanted for his own good, Mr. Hugo Stolphe, C.O.D.—collect on delivery!" said the officer of the law. ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... intrusting that important duty to a steward or agent. On his excursions for that purpose, he was generally accompanied by a favorite little spaniel, of a kind too small to be of any service to him as an escort, but inestimable for his qualities as a companion. One day M. St. Remi had ridden a long way to collect certain sums of money due him in arrears of rent, but which he had little expectation of being able to obtain without further trouble. To his agreeable surprise, however, his tenants paid him the whole arrears,—an event ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... say nothing about it to him till the plan is settled, then I'll run away before he can collect his wits and be tragic. Beth must think I'm going to please myself, as I am, for I can't talk about Laurie to her. But she can pet and comfort him after I'm gone, and so cure him of this romantic notion. He's been through so many little trials of the sort, he's ...

— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

... by a fluke that he missed Sanders. As it happened, the Commissioner had come back to the big river to collect the evidence of the murdered woman's brother who was a petty headman of an Isisi fishing village. The Zaire came into the river almost as the last of Bosambo's canoes went round the bend out of sight, and since a legend existed on the river, a legend for the inception ...

— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace

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