CPage 279
- English Word Collection Definition An accumulation of any substance.
- English Word Collection Definition The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- English Word Collection Definition The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- English Word Collectional Definition Of or pertaining to collecting.
- English Word Collective Definition Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
- English Word Collective Definition Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
- English Word Collective Definition Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
- English Word Collective Definition Tending to collect; forming a collection.
- English Word Collective Definition Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
- English Word Collective Definition A collective noun or name.
- English Word Collectively Definition In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
- English Word Collectiveness Definition A state of union; mass.
- English Word Collectivism Definition The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
- English Word Collectivist Definition An advocate of collectivism.
- English Word Collectivist Definition Relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism.
- English Word Collector Definition 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.
- English Word Collector Definition A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- English Word Collector Definition An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
- English Word Collector Definition One authorized to collect debts.
- English Word Collector Definition A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- English Word Collectorate Definition The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
- English Word Collectorship Definition The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
- English Word Collegatary Definition A joint legatee.
- English Word College Definition A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
- English Word College Definition A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
- English Word College Definition A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
- English Word College Definition Fig.: A community.
- English Word Collegial Definition Collegiate.
- English Word Collegian Definition A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.
- English Word Collegiate Definition Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.