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<p><b>2.</b> <def>A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.</def>

<blockquote>Volumes without the <b>collector's</b> own reflections. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.</def>

<blockquote>A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by <b>collectors</b>, and other officers. <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One authorized to collect debts.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.</def>

<i>Todd.</i>

<h1>Collectorate</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*lect"or*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.</def>

<h1>Collectorship</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*lect"or*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.</def>

<h1>Collegatary</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*leg"a*ta*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>collegetarius</ets>. See <er>Legatary</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A joint legatee.</def>

<h1>College</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col"lege</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>coll\'8age</ets>, L. <ets>collegium</ets>, fr. <ets>collega</ets> colleague. See <er>Colleague</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; <as>as, a <ex>college</ex> of heralds; a <ex>college</ex> of electors; a <ex>college</ex> of bishops.</as></def>

<blockquote>The <b>college</b> of the cardinals. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Then they made <b>colleges</b> of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; <as>as, the <ex>colleges</ex> of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American <ex>colleges</ex></as>.</def>

<note>&hand; In France and some other parts of continental Europe, <i>college</i> is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.</def> "The gate of Trinity <i>College</i>."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Fig.: A community.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Thick as the <b>college</b> of the bees in May. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>College of justice</col>, <cd>a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers.</cd> -- <col>The sacred college</col>, <cd>the college or cardinals at Rome.</cd></cs>

<h1>Collegial</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*le"gi*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>collegialis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Collegiate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Collegian</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*le"gi*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.</def>