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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."

adjective

Collected adj.

Gathered together.

Self-possessed; calm; composed.

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Etymology of 'Collected'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collected" Quotes from Famous Books

... second letter as having once had a great oak in it which was blown down in the great storm of 1703—a storm of which Defoe collected the chief records into a book—bears witness also to the cheerful village life of old. The name is a corruption of Play- stow; it was the playground for the village children. That oak blown down in 1703, which the vicar of the time vainly endeavoured ...

— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 • Gilbert White

... Superstitions Lingering in 1868. Collected by Charlotte Latham, at Fittleworth. The Folk-Lore Record ...

— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... away without one conflict of arms, one execution, or one arrest for treason. In the meantime it is suggested that exports might be left perfectly free, and, to avoid conflicts, all duties on imports be collected outside of the cities in forts or ships ...

— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... simply as a record of works carried out, but as a treatise on the principles underlying their construction and an investigation of the mathematical theories involved. It is primarily intended for the student; but it is hoped that the large amount of data and material collected from various sources, and in many cases contributed specially for this book, will render it useful to the expert engineer as a work of reference; while, at the same time, of general interest to directors and others connected with the management ...

— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... classics, think of them as we think of the masterpieces of Greek literature, aS texts which may contain wrong readings, interpolations and lacunae, which owe whatever authority they possess to the labours of the scholars who collected, arranged and corrected them. This attitude is to some extent the result of the attempt made by the First Emperor about 200 B.C. to destroy the classical literature and to its subsequent laborious restoration. At a time when the Indians regarded the Veda as a verbal revelation, ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

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