n. [ F. collègue, L. collega one chosen at the same time with another, a partner in office; col- + legare to send or choose as deputy. See Legate. ] A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

Syn. -- Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To unite or associate with another or with others. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Partnership in office. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A band of men
Collected choicely from each country. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [ Archaic. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To infer; to conclude. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t. ] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Neut. pl. from L. collectaneus collected, fr. colligere. See Collect, v. t. ] Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Gathered together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Self-possessed; calm; composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Composedly; coolly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A collected state of the mind; self-possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being collected. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. collectio: cf. F. collection. ] 1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. “A collection of letters.” Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. “The collection for the saints.” 1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. “Collections of moisture.” Whewell. “A purulent collection.” Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [ Eng. ]

Syn. -- Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to collecting. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first twenty-five [ years ] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif. ] 1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [ Obs. ] “Critical and collective reason.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Tending to collect; forming a collection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Local is his throne . . . to fix a point,
A central point, collective of his sons. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of union; mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize. [ Brit. ]
Syn. -- collectivize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. collectivisme. ] (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. collectiviste. ] An advocate of collectivism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. operating under collectivist principles. [ Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic ]
Syn. -- collectivized, state-controlled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Quality or state of being collective. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The collective sum, aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.

The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Polit. Econ.) Collectivism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises.
Syn. -- collectivise. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. brought under collective ownership and operating under collectivist principles; -- used especially of organizations operating under the ownership by the state. [ Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic ]
Syn. -- collective, collectivised, state-controlled. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One authorized to collect debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. cailin. ] A girl; a maiden. [ Anglo-Irish ]

Of all the colleens in the land
Sweet Mollie is the daisy. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. collegetarius. See Legatary. ] (Law) A joint legatee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague. ] 1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. [ 1913 Webster ]

The college of the cardinals. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. “The gate of Trinity College.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: A community. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. --
The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. collegialis. ] Collegiate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collegiatus. ] Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collegiate church. (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a college. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ko`lla glue + 'e`mbolon wedge, peg; -- so called from their having collophores. ] (Zool.) The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ko`lla glue + &unr_; an infusion. Formed like parenchyma. ] (Bot.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } [ Corrupted fr. acolyte. ] An inferior church servant. [ Obs. ] See Acolyte. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. collet, dim. fr. L. collum neck. See Collar. ] 1. A small collar or neckband. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Jewelry) (a) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set. (b) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant. [ 1913 Webster ]

How full the collet with his jewel is! Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Colletic. ] (Zool.) An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. colleticus suitable for gluing, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to glue, ko`lla glue. ] Agglutinant. -- n. An agglutinant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Collie. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Décolleté. ] (Costume) 1. The upper border or part of a low-cut (i.e., décolleté) dress. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. The exposed upper parts of the breasts of a woman wearing a low-cut dress; as, transfixed by her stunning decolletage. [ PJC ]

‖a. [ F., p. p. of décolleter to bare the neck and shoulders; dé- + collet collar, fr. L. collum neck. ] 1. Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wearing a décolleté gown. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Erroneous or inaccurate recollection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A collection of objects of various kinds; a hodgepodge; a medley; a confused mixture; an omnium gatherum. [ PJC ]

n. A collection previously made. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recollected; p. pr. & vb. n. Recollecting. ] [ Pref. re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. Recollet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Tyrian queen . . .
Admired his fortunes, more admired the man;
Then recollected stood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]