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[Lat. collectio, from colligo =to collect.] IMG:content-0172.png:[blocks in formation] money, P.]."- Wycliffe: II. Paralip. vii. 9. *2 That which is collected: a collection. "Of the collect is or gade ring is of moneye."- Wycliffe : 1 Cor . xvi. 1. II. Eccles .: A name given to certain brief and comprehensive prayers, found in all liturgies and public devotional offices. The origin of the term is not certain; according to some, it is from these prayers being said in the congregation or collection of the people; according to others, because they are a brief and comprehensive summary of many longer petitions collected into one. They ar great antiquity, being mentioned by writers of the third century, and occur in the sacramentary of Gelasius, patriarch of Rome, A. D. 494. The majority of those in uso in the English Church are translated from the ancient mi als of Salisbury, York, Here ford, . ( Origines Liturgicæ , .) are "Then let your devotion be humbly to say over proper collects." Taylor: Guide to Devotion. còl-léc-ta ně a, s . pl . Lat. neut. pl. of collect tane us collected.] A number of pa ages collected from various authors; a miscellany or anthology. ( Brande .) 3. That in which a number of things is collected; a combination, an epitome. "Fairest collection of thy sex's charms."-Prior. *II. Figuratively : 1. The act or proce of deducing or inferring from premises; deduction, induction. "This kind of comprehension in Scripture being therefore received, still there is doubt how far we are to xiv., § 2. proceed by collection ."-Hooker: Eccl. Polity, bk. 2. That which is deduced or inferred; a deduc tion, conclusion, or inference. "From many cases like, one rule of law, These her collections , not the senses are." B. Technically : Davies . 1. Excise : A district set out for convenience of collecting taxes, duties, ., and superintended by a collector of excise. "Copies of every proof.. have been most carefully compared by the officials in the Collector's offices of the II. Fig .: Deducing or inferring from premises; capable of deduction. "...not only by critical and collective reason,..." -Browne: Vulgar Errors. B. Grammar : Expre ing a collection or aggregate of individuals, though itself a singular noun. col-lěc-tive-ly, adv . [Eng. collective , -ly.] Not singly or by units, but in the aggregate or ma ; in a body, in combination or union. "Singly and apart many of them are subject to exception, yet collectively they make up a good moral evidence." -Hale .