Collect
Collect (kol*lekt") , transitive verb
[Latin collecrus, past participle of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: compare Old French collecter. See Legend, and compare Coil, transitive verb, Cull, transitive verb]
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.
'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect.
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] — Shakespeare
Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
Collocations (1)
To collect one's self , to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
Collect , intransitive verb
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.
Collect , noun
[Late Latin collecta, from Latin collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, from collerige: compare French collecte. See Collect, transitive verb]
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.