What is "collects"

Usage examples of "collects".

The collects of the Breviary are largely drawn from the Gelasian and other Sacramentaries, and they are used to sum up the dominant idea of the festival in connexion with which they happen to be used.

The latter of those mighty streams, which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former, flows above thirteen hundred miles, for the most part to the south-east, collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers, and is, at length, through six mouths, received into the Euxine, which appears scarcely equal to such an accession of waters.

The smoke still spews from the pot but it does not vent into the tunnels, it collects and rolls in a bolus of pollution over the lip, and retreats back out of the hood and the pipe.

While this Heavenly City is on pilgrimage on earth, it calls out all peoples and so collects a society of aliens, speaking all languages.

Are you one of those crazy survivalists who lives out in the Oregon woods and collects high powered rifles and small tanks?

As it successively collects the streams of the plain of Colchos, the Phasis moves with diminished speed, though accumulated weight.

Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.

Roman Catholic province of St Andrews in 1903 contains many of the old Aberdeen collects and antiphons.

Out in the open plain beyond this quarter of the city to-day, after every heavy rain, the water collects and renders the ground swampy.

The atmosphere has collected as the shadow collects in the distant corner of a room--it is the shadow of the summer wind.