collector

[Fr. collect eur; Lat. collector; from colligo =to collect.] I. Ord. Lang.: One who collects or gathers together. Applied to 1. A compiler: one who collects scattered pieces or pa ages into one. "The grandfather might be the first collector of them into a body." -Hale : Common Law of England. 2. One who collects or gathers together works of art, antiquities, books, objects of natural history, or any other special objects for study or other pur IMG:content-0173.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Bot . ( Pl .): Dense hairs clothing the surface of the style in the Composite, Campanulacese, . They seem intended as brushes to clear the pollen out of the cells of the anthers. In Lobelia the collectors constitute a whorl below the stigma, while in Good eniac ere they are united into a cup called the indusium . taxes, ., paid to the tax-gatherers in each collec 2. Ercise: An officer appointed to receive the tion and transmit them to the chief office. IMG:content-0174.png:[blocks in formation] p. *2. University: A college examination held at the end of each term. *col-leen, s. [Ir. cailin =a girl.] A girl, an Irish = ē; ey = a. qu = IMG:content-0175.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A collection, body, or community of persons, having certain rights and privileges, and devoted to certain pursuits. "Gather'd from all the famous colleges Almost in Christen dom." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., iii. 2. "The College of Justice, a great forensic society composed of judges, advocates, writers to the signet, and solicitors, "-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. 2. A number or community of persons incorporated and living in society for the purposes of study or teaching. 3. The building or establishment in which such persons reside. "Newton retired to his quiet observatory over the gate of Trinity College ." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xv. 4. Any building or establishment used for purposes of instruction. *5. A course of lectures. IMG:content-0176.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Gen. ( Pl .): Colleges in the sense A. Ι. 1. (1) Old Roman Empire : Collegie in the sense A. I. 1 existed in Old Rome. A collegia was sometimes called also a corpus , whence the word corporate applied to persons a ociated together. There were many corporations, but none were allowed permanently to exist unle they obtained the sanction of the senate or the emperor. (2) Mediæval and Modern Times: Colleges consisting of persons a ociated for various purposes are common, as the College of Physicians, the College of Preceptors; but in most such cases the members do not live in common. 2. Spec. (Pl.): Colleges in connection with Uni versities: Universities came into existence before colleges, and the original state of things may still be seen in Scotland, where the immense ma of students reside where they like. The practice of living in common is only now beginning to creep in. Neverthele , the word college has long been used in Scotland in connection with the Universities, though in a vague sense. In this country the words university and college have not heretofore been well discriminated. English Colleges: In England, on the contrary, the two words are very precisely distinguished, IMG:content-0177.png:[blocks in formation] Till lately all members of the two older English 2. An inmate of a debtors' prison. Universities were required to belong to a college; "He now there are a number of students unattached. A fellow- collegiates ."-North: Life of Lord Guilford, i. 128. college consists first of a head, sometimes called by that name, in other cases designated a Provost, a Master, a Rector, a Principal, or a Warden. Next in dignity follow Fellows of the college and Scholars of the college: generally these are students as well. The teaching afforded by the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge is provided by the Tutors, who appoint Lecturers with the sanction of the head of the College. The law of the college is that expre ed in the will of the Founder, and some one generally po e es visitatorial powers to see that such regulations are carried out. Prior to the Reformation the clergy regarded the colleges of Oxford, Cam bridge, and other Universities as clerical corporations; the right of visitation was therefore claimed by the ordinary of the diocese. Black stone, how ever, states that now they are legally viewed as civil corporations. College de Propaganda : Ecclesiol.: A name sometimes given to what is more fully and accurately termed Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, and popularly the Propaganda (q. v.). College of Arms : [HERALD'S COLLEGE.] College of Cardinals : [See CARDINAL.] College of Doctors' Laws: The same as Doctors ' Commons. College of Piety : (Translation of Lat. Collegia Piet at is .] Ch. Hist.: The English rendering of the name given to certain religious meetings, in various respects resembling modern revival gatherings, established in the seventeenth century by the Pietistic party in the Luther an Church. (Mosheim.)