Hypertext Webster Gateway: "collected"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Collect \Col*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Collected}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to
bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter.
See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, v. t., {Cull}, v. t.]
1. To gather into 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.
2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other
indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
3. 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.
Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate;
garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Collected \Col*lect"ed\, a.
1. Gathered together.
2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
collected
adj 1: brought together in one place; "the collected works of
Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: {gathered}]
[ant: {uncollected}, {uncollected}]
2: brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated
letters in my office" [syn: {accumulated}, {amassed}, {assembled},
{congregate}, {massed}]
3: in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained
collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly
poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more
dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong
and self-possessed in the face of trouble" [syn: {equanimous},
{poised}, {self-collected}, {self-contained}, {self-possessed}]
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