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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

... conclusion that it was McGinnis looking after his property. The fact that he carefully kicked a broken bottle out of the road somewhat strengthened me in the opinion. But he presently walked away, and the court knew him no more. He probably collected his rents by proxy—if ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various

... collected a quantity of dead leaves, dry grass, and short sticks of the mezquite-tree—all of which he placed under his saddle-blanket, to prevent the rain and sleet from wetting them. This done, he drew ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... Horn had departed, the treacherous Figold had collected a great army of workmen and made them build him a tower in the sea, which could only be reached when the tide was out. Now about this time Horn had a dream, in which he saw Riminild on board a ship at sea, which presently went to pieces, and she tried to swim ashore, steering ...

— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... heard, that that text was in its day and way altered by someone else, and so on almost ad infinitum. 'Mrs. Brown's version,' therefore, or Mr. Smith's, or Mr. Anybody's, has absolutely no claims to sacrosanctity. It is well, no doubt, that all such versions should be collected by someone (as in this case by Professor Child) who has the means, the time, and the patience. But for the purposes of reading, for the purposes of poetic enjoyment, such a collection is nearly valueless. We must have it for reference, of course; nobody grudges the guineas he has spent ...

— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury

... the 1st December, while the most of the crew were away at Red-Snow Valley cutting moss, Fred collected his corps dramatique for a last rehearsal in the forecastle, where they were secure from interruption, the place being so cold that no one would willingly go into it except under the force of necessity. A dim lantern lit ...

— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne

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