collector (kolektor)

[F. collect eur = Sp. colector = Pg. collector = It. collet tore, nia. I. D'Israeli, Curios. of Lit., I. 58. 2. A compiler; one who gathers and puts together parts of books, or scattered pieces, in one book. [Rare.] collegian 2. (a) An endowed and incorporated community or a ociation of students within a university. See university. A college corporation in the English universities consists of a master, fellows, and scholars. (b) The institution or house founded for the accommodation of such an a ociation. Such houses began to be established about A. D. 1200, as charitable foundations for affording food and lodging to poor students, and did not at first undertake to subject them to any regular discipline or to order their studies. But schools were early attached to them, and the entire instruction of most of the universities was ultimately given in the colleges. The primary object of a college is not the teaching of anybody; it is the maintenance in an incorporated society of some of those who come to profit by the teaching and other advantages of the University. Contemporary Rev. , LI. 616. 3. A person employed to collect dues, public or private; especially, specially, an officer appointed and commi ioned to collect and receive customs duties, taxes, or toll within a certain district. Under the government of the United States these are of two cla es, called collectors of customs and collectors of internal revenue. Qwich me e peny and ferthing schal be resceyued be the colic tour for the zere [year] chosen. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 452. The king sent his chief collector of tribute unto the cities of Juda. 1 Mac. i. 29. Specifically-4. In British India, the chief administrative official of a zillah or district, charged with the collection of the revenue, and also, except in Bengal proper, po e ing certain magisterial powers. Yule and Burnell. 5. One of two bachelors of arts in Oxford University who are appointed each Lent to divide the determining bachelors into cla es and distribute the schools. Also called Lent collectors. - 6. A person appointed to care for the estate of a decedent until letters testamentary or of administration upon it are granted.-7. In elect., the upper plate of a disk or condenser, employed for collecting electricity; more generally, any arrangement for collecting electricity. A pointed collector was not employed until after Franklin's famous researches on the action of points. S. P. Thompson , Elect. and Mag., p. 4. Collector of births and burials, a local English (Norfolk) municipal officer who makes a weekly return of births and burials to the magistrates. collectorate (ko-lek'to-rat), n. [ collector + -ate3.] The district of a collector; a collectorship; specifically, an administrative district, or zillah, of British India under the jurisdiction of a collector. See collector, 4. Good bra utensils are also made at Kelshi and at Bagmandli in the Ratnagiri collectorate . Bird wood, Indian Arts, I. 161. collector-magistrate (ko-lek'tor-maj"is-trāt), In British India, a collector." n.