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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COLLECTED, pp.
1. Gathered; assembled; congregated; drawn together.
2. Recovered from surprise or dismay; not disconcerted; cool; firm; prepared.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: collected, gathered] [ant: uncollected, ungathered]
2: in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble" [syn: collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1548 1. gathered together <the collected works of Scott> 2. possessed of calmness and composure often through concentrated effort 3. of a horse's gait performed slowly and restrainedly with the animal's center of gravity toward the hindquarters — compare extended Synonyms: see cool • collectedly adverb • collectedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Collect Col*lect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collected; p. pr. & vb. n. Collecting.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and cf. Coil, v. t., Cull, v. t.] 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. --Watts. 2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. 3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke. To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control. Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Collected Col*lect"ed, a. 1. Gathered together. 2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. An author's collected works or letters are all their works or letters published in one book or in a set of books. ...the collected works of Rudyard Kipling... = complete ADJ: ADJ n 2. If you say that someone is collected, you mean that they are very calm and self-controlled, especially when they are in a difficult or serious situation. Police say she was cool and collected during her interrogation. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 3. see also collect

Moby Thesaurus

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