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Collect

Collect (collect)
v. t.(?)
Col*lect"
[imp. & p. p. Collected] p. pr. *** vb. n. Collecting.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together] col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collect
  1. 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.
    Shak.

    'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect.
    Watts.

  2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
  3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
    [Archaic.] Shak.

    Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
    Locke.

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

    Syn. -- To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.

Collect

Collect (collect)
v. i.
Col*lect"
  1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
  2. To infer; to conclude.
    [Archaic]

    Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
    South.

Collect

Collect (collect)
n.
Col"lect
  1. 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.
    Macaulay.













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