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Collect [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A short comprehensive prayer; a prayer adapted to a particular day or occasion.

2. A collection or gathering of money.

Collect [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To run together; to accumulate; as, pus collects in an abscess; sand or snow collects in banks.

Collect [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To gather, as separate persons or things, into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; as, to collect men into an army; to collect ideas; to collect particulars into one sum.

2. To gain by observation or information.

3. From all that can be collected, the public peace will not soon be interrupted.

4. To gather from premises; to infer as a consequence.

5. Which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.

6. To gather money or revenue from debtors; to demand and receive; as, to collect taxes; to collect the customs; to collect accounts, or debts.

7. To gather, as crops; to reap, mow or pick, and secure in proper repositories; as, to collect hay, corn or fruits.

8. To draw together; to bring into united action; as, to collect all the strength, or all the powers of the mind.

9. To obtain from contribution.

10. To collect ones self, is to recover from surprise, or a disconcerted state; to gain command over the thoughts, when dispersed; over the passions, when tumultuous; or the mind, when dismayed.

Collect [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

2. To infer; to conclude.

Collect [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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.

4. A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

Collectanea [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

Collectaneous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Gathered; collected.

Collected [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Gathered; assembled; congregated; drawn together.

2. Recovered from surprise or dismay; not disconcerted; cool; firm; prepared.

Collected [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Gathered together.

2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.

Collected [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Collectedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In one view; together; in one body.

Collectedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Composedly; coolly.

Collectedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A collected state of the mind; recovery from surprise.

Collectedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A collected state of the mind; self-possession.

Collectible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be collected or gathered; that may be inferred.

2. That may be gathered or recovered; as, the debts or taxes are or are not collectible

Collectible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being collected.

Collecting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Gathering; drawing together; assembling.

Collecting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Collection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of gathering, or assembling.

2. The body formed by gathering; an assemblage, or assembly; a crowd; as a collection of men.

3. A contribution; a sum collected for a charitable purpose.

4. Now concerning the collection for the saints. 1 Corinthians 16:1 .

5. A gathering, as of matter in an abscess.

6. The act of deducing consequences; reasoning; inference.

7. A corollary; a consectary; a deduction from premises; consequence.

8. A book compiled from other books, by the putting together of parts; a compilation; as a collection of essays or sermons.

Collection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

2. That which is collected

3. A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.

4. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.

5. That which is obtained in payment of demands.

6. An accumulation of any substance.

7. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

8. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

Collectional [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to collecting.

Collective [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Formed by gathering; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated, or aggregated.

2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

3. In grammar, expressing an number or multitude united; as a collective noun or name, which, though in the singular number itself, denotes more than one; as, company, army, troop, assembly.

Collective [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.

2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

3. Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.

4. Tending to collect; forming a collection.

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

Collective [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A collective noun or name.

Collectively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly; in a state of combination; as the citizens of a state collectively considered.

Collectively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

Collectiveness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A state of union; mass.

Collectiveness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A state of union; mass.

Collectivism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.

Collectivist [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism.

Collectivist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An advocate of collectivism.

Collector [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who collects or gathers things which are scattered or separate.

2. A compiler; one who gathers and puts together parts of books, or scattered pieces, in one book.

3. In botany, one who gathers plants, without studying botany as a science.

4. An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes or toll.

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, who is appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

Collector [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

3. An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.

4. One authorized to collect debts.

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

Collectorate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

Collectorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The office of a collector of customs or taxes.

2. The jurisdiction of a collector.

Collectorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

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Genesis 38:20

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.

Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

Genesis 41:35

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

Genesis 41:48

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

Genesis 47:14

And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.

Numbers 3:47

Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.

Numbers 3:49

And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites.

Numbers 3:50

Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

He collected the money from the firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Deuteronomy 15:2

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’S release.

This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.

Deuteronomy 15:3

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

Deuteronomy 24:10

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

2 Kings 12:4

And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 22:4

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

2 Chronicles 24:5

And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste.

2 Chronicles 24:6

And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”

2 Chronicles 24:9

And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 34:9

And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 10:38

And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.

Isaiah 11:12

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 22:9

Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

Daniel 11:20

Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

In his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be destroyed, though not in anger or in battle.