collect

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1. 1.To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
2. 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.
3. 3.To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
4. 4.To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.
5. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes called?
• What is to assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks called?
• What is to infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South called?
• What is 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 called?