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Composedly; coolly.

A collected state of the mind; self-possession.

Capable of being collected.

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five [years] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley.

In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

A state of union; mass.

The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.

An advocate of collectivism. -- a.

Quality or state of being collective.

One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]

A joint legatee.

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, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons…

Collegiate. [R.]

A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.

Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson. Collegiate church. (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, posses…