What does "collect" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. Locke. To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
2. 3.To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
3. 4.To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.
4. 5.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. Macaulay.