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noun

Collection n.

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

That which is collected; as:

(a)

A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters."

(b)

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints."

(c)

(Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.

(d)

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." "A purulent collection."

The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. (Obs.) "We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines."

The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. (Eng.)

Synonyms: Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.

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Etymology of 'Collection'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the richest and most famous of all the districts of Tahiti. The village was a few Chinese stores, a Catholic and a Protestant church, a graveyard, and a scattered collection of homes. I bade au revoir to my delightful companion, Edmond Brault, having determined to walk the remaining kilometers, and to send on my ...

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— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens

... Palais Royal gloves across the back by shutting up his hand to hide the one cent he puts into the poor box! a Christian woman at the story of the Hottentots crying copious tears into a twenty-five dollar handkerchief, and then giving a two-cent piece to the collection, thrusting it down under the bills, so people will not know but it was a ten-dollar gold piece! One hundred dollars for incense to fashion—two cents for God! God gives us ninety cents out of every dollar. The other ten cents, by command of ...

— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage

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