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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To infer; to conclude.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Whence some <b>collect</b> that the former word imports a plurality of persons. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Collect</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col"lect</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>collecta</ets>, fr. L. <ets>collecta</ets> a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. <ets>collerige</ets>: cf. F. <ets>collecte</ets>. See <er>Collect</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.</def>

<blockquote>The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a <b>collect</b> in verse. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Collectanea</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col`lec*ta"ne*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[Neut. pl. from L. <ets>collectaneus</ets> collected, fr. <ets>colligere</ets>. See <er>Collect</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.</def>

<h1>Collected</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*lect"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Gathered together.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Self-possessed; calm; composed.</def>

<h1>Collectedly</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*lect"ed*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Composedly; coolly.</def>

<h1>Collectedness</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*lect"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A collected state of the mind; self-possession.</def>

<h1>Collectible</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*lect"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being collected.</def>

<h1>Collection</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*lec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>collectio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>collection</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of collecting or of gathering; <as>as, the <ex>collection</ex> of specimens</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is collected; as: <sd>(a)</sd> A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.</def> "A <i>collection</i> of letters."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.</def> "The <i>collection</i> for the saints."

<i>1 Cor. xvi. 1</i>

<sd>(c)</sd> (<i>Usually in pl</i>.) <def>That which is obtained in payment of demands. <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>An accumulation of any substance.</cd> "<i>Collections</i> of moisture." <i>Whewell.</i></def> "A purulent <i>collection</i>."

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>We may safely say thus, that wrong <b>collections</b> have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<syn>Syn. -- Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.</syn>