Gray.
Collective
(Col*lect"ive), n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name.
Collectively
(Col*lect"ive*ly), adv. In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Collectiveness
(Col*lect"ive*ness), n. A state of union; mass.
Collectivism
(Col*lect"iv*ism) n. [Cf. F. collectivisme.] (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital
should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
Collectivist
(Col*lect"iv*ist), n. [Cf. F. collectiviste.] An advocate of collectivism. — a. Relating to, or
characteristic of, collectivism.
Collector
(Col*lect"or) n. [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur.]
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.
I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector.
Lamb.
2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
Addison.
3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers.
Sir W. Temple.
4. One authorized to collect debts.
5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Todd.
Collectorate
(Col*lect"or*ate) n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
Collectorship
(Col*lect"or*ship), n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
Collegatary
(Col*leg"a*ta*ry) n. [L. collegetarius. See Legatary.] (Law) A joint legatee.
College
(Col"lege) n. [F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.]
1. 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.
The college of the cardinals.
Shak.
Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did
cut off all their portion in this.
Jer. Taylor.
