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v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To infer; to conclude. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t. ] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Neut. pl. from L. collectaneus collected, fr. colligere. See Collect, v. t. ] Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Gathered together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Self-possessed; calm; composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Composedly; coolly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A collected state of the mind; self-possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being collected. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. collectio: cf. F. collection. ] 1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. “A collection of letters.” Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. “The collection for the saints.” 1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. “Collections of moisture.” Whewell. “A purulent collection.” Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [ Eng. ]

Syn. -- Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to collecting. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first twenty-five [ years ] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif. ] 1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [ Obs. ] “Critical and collective reason.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Tending to collect; forming a collection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Local is his throne . . . to fix a point,
A central point, collective of his sons. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of union; mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize. [ Brit. ]
Syn. -- collectivize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. collectivisme. ] (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. collectiviste. ] An advocate of collectivism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. operating under collectivist principles. [ Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic ]
Syn. -- collectivized, state-controlled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Quality or state of being collective. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The collective sum, aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.

The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Polit. Econ.) Collectivism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises.
Syn. -- collectivise. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. brought under collective ownership and operating under collectivist principles; -- used especially of organizations operating under the ownership by the state. [ Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic ]
Syn. -- collective, collectivised, state-controlled. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur. ] 1. One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. [ 1913 Webster ]

I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One authorized to collect debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Erroneous or inaccurate recollection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A collection of objects of various kinds; a hodgepodge; a medley; a confused mixture; an omnium gatherum. [ PJC ]

n. A collection previously made. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Recollet. ] (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [ Written also Recollet. ] Addis & Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recollected; p. pr. & vb. n. Recollecting. ] [ Pref. re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. Recollet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Tyrian queen . . .
Admired his fortunes, more admired the man;
Then recollected stood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + collect. ] To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. récollection. ] 1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. “One of his earliest recollections.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Reminiscence; remembrance. See Memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the power of recollecting. J. Foster. [ 1913 Webster ]