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Webster 1913 Edition

Collect

Col-lect′

(kŏl-lĕkt′)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Collected
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Collecting
.]
[L.
collecrus
,
p.
p.
of
collerige
to bind together;
col-
+
legere
to gather: cf. OF.
collecter
. See
Legend
, and cf.
Coil
,
Verb.
T.
,
Cull
,
Verb.
T.
]
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.
Shakespeare
’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.
Syn. – To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.

Col-lect′

,
Verb.
I.
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.

Col′lect

,
Noun.
[LL.
collecta
, fr. L.
collecta
a collection in money; an assemblage, fr.
collerige
: cf. F.
collecte
. See
Collect
,
Verb.
T.
]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Collect

COLLECT

, v.t.
1.
To gather, as separate persons or things, into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; as, to collect men into an army; to collect ideas; to collect particulars into one sum.
2.
To gain by observation or information.
From all that can be collected, the public peace will not soon be interrupted.
3.
To gather from premises; to infer as a consequence.
Which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
4.
To gather money or revenue from debtors; to demand and receive; as, to collect taxes; to collect the customs; to collect accounts, or debts.
5.
To gather, as crops; to reap, mow or pick, and secure in proper repositories; as, to collect hay, corn or fruits.
6.
To draw together; to bring into united action; as, to collect all the strength, or all the powers of the mind.
7.
To obtain from contribution.
To collect ones self, is to recover from surprise, or a disconcerted state; to gain command over the thoughts, when dispersed; over the passions, when tumultuous; or the mind, when dismayed.

COLLECT

,
Verb.
I.
To run together; to accumulate; as, pus collects in an abscess; sand or snow collects in banks.

COLLECT

,
Noun.
1.
A short comprehensive prayer; a prayer adapted to a particular day or occasion.
2.
A collection or gathering of money.

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