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.