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dividual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself. "Individually or collectively." Burke. How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it Hooker.

the parts separately to the whole which they constitute, or into which they may be united collectively; the operation of discovering and proving general propositions; the scientific method. -- Philosophical induction, the inference, or the act of inferring, that what has been observed or established in respect to a pa…

ng the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.

The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton.

The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest. Compound interest, interest, not only on the original principal, but also on unpaid interest from the time it fell due. -- Simple interest, interest on the principal sum without interest on ove…

ic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.

Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.

ocal cant] Johny Crapaud (, a jocose designation of a Frenchman, or of the French people, collectively.

judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary.

A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.

To body of knights, taken collectively.

Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.

Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.

f the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

A body of legions; legions, collectively. [R.] Pollok.

A single type; type, collectively; a style of type. Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. Evelyn.