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o one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

Gathered together.

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.

To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.

Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.

A collection previously made. [R.]