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   Collect , v. 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, v. t., Cull, v. t.]
    To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
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   A band of men
   Collected choicely from each country.
   Shak.
   
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   'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect.
   Watts.
   
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   To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
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   To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.]
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   Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
   Locke.
   
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   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.
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   Collect, v. i.
   To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
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   To infer; to conclude. [Archaic]
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   Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
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   Collect, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
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   The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse.
   Macaulay.
   
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