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collect

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collect \Col"lect\, 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. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (transitive), from Old French collecter "to collect" (late 14c.), from Latin collectus , past participle of colligere "gather together," from com- "together" (see com- ) + legere "to gather" (see lecture (n.)). The intransitive sense is attested ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. adv. With payment due from the recipient. v (context transitive English) To gather together; amass. Etymology 2 n. (context Christianity English) The prayer said before the ...

Usage examples of collect.

Archimages have included shielding aborigines who were in danger of being exterminated by hostile humans, and collecting and disposing of dangerous or inappropriate artifacts of the Vanished Ones that turned up in the ancient ruined cities.

Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.

They appeal with confidence to the Persian history of Sherefeddin Ali, which has been given to our curiosity in a French version, and from which I shall collect and abridge a more specious narrative of this memorable transaction.

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 Adelantado, hearing the cries, left Castaneda in his place to collect the people who had not come up, who were at least half the force, and went himself to see if they were in any danger.

State of Texas filed an original petition in the Supreme Court, in which it asserted that its claim, together with those of three other States, exceeded the value of the estate, that the portion of the estate within Texas alone would not suffice to discharge its own tax, and that its efforts to collect its tax might be defeated by adjudications of domicile by the other States.

To collect, to dispose, and to adorn a series of fourscore years, in an immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images, was an undertaking sufficient to exercise the genius of Tacitus himself during the greatest part of his life.

Lefferts Corners had been the affable reporters, of whom several had still remained to collect final echoes of the tragedy.

Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?

Passed herselfoffas an agoraphobic and joined the group in order to spy and collect dirt.

As he explained in Collected Words, there were a number of technical problems to be allowed for in the poster: Because the sheet was folded three times to bring it to the square shape for insertion into the album, the composition was interestingly complicated by the need to consider it as a series of subsidiary compositions.

Quivil to the church to collect what gracious charity the almoner thought fit for them.

These forces had to be collected, trained, equipped, and eventually embarked, with all the vast impedimenta of amphibious warfare, at widely dispersed bases in the Mediterranean, in Great Britain, and in the United States.

When the bark of the main stems is wounded, a gum will exude, and may be collected: it possesses astringent and mildly aperient properties.

The cells in the culture were Archaeons, bacterialike marine organisms collected from deep-sea thermal vents.