CPage 418
- 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.