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cAleft from our Saviour's premonition to his difciples. 
Decay of Piety. —To colledl himfelf. To recover from fur- 
priie ; to gain command over his thoughts ; to aflemble 
2 . is fentiments.—Profperity unexpected often maketh 
men carelefs and remits; whereas they, who receive a 
wound, become more vigilant and collected. Hayward. 
As when of old fome orator renown’d 
In Athens'or free Romd, where eloquence 
Flourilh’d, fince mute, to fome great caufe addrefs’d, 
Stood in himfelf collected, while each part. 
Motion, and each aft, won audience. Milton. 
COL'LECT, f. [collegia, low Lat.] A fhort compre- 
henfive prayer, ufed at the facrament; any lhort prayer.' 
•—Then let your devotion be humbly to lay over proper 
collects. Taylor. 
COLLECTA'NEOUS, adj. [colleRaneus, Lat.] Gather¬ 
ed up together; collected ; notes compiled from various 
books. 
COLLECTTDLY, adv. Gathered in one view at 
once.—The whole evolution of ages from everlading to 
everlading, is fo collefiedly and prefentificly reprefented 
to God. More. 
COLLECTABLE, adj. That which may be gathered 
from the premifes by juft conlequence.—Whether thereby 
be meant Euphrates, is not colletdille from the following 
'words. Brown. 
COLLECTION, f. The aft of gathering together. 
An aflemblage; the things gathered.—The gallery is 
hung with a colleRion of piftures. Addifon. 
No perjur’d knight defires to quit thy arms, 
Faired colleRion of thy fex’s charms. Prior. 
The aft of deducing conlequences; ratiocination; dif- 
courfe. This fenfe is now fcarcely in ufe : 
Thou (halt not peep through lattices of eyes, 
Nor hear through labyrinths of ears, nor learn 
By circuit or colleftions to difcern. Donne. 
A corollary; a confeftary deduced from premiles; de- 
jduftion ; confequence : 
When (lie, from fundry arts, one (kill doth draw; 
Gath’ring, from divers fights, one aft of war; 
From many cafes like, one rule of law : 
Thefe her colleRions , not the fenfes are. Davies. 
COLLECTI'TIOUS, adj. [coliefiiiius, Lat.] Gather¬ 
ed up. 
COLLECTIVE, adj. [from colleR ; colleftif, Fr.] Ga¬ 
thered into one mafs; aggregated ; accumulative.—A 
body colleRive containeth a huge multitude. Hooker .— 
The difference between a compound and a colleRive idea 
is, that a compound idea unites things of a different kind; 
but a colleRive idea things of the fame. Watts. —Employed 
in deducing conlequences ; argumentative.—Antiquity 
left many falfities controulable not only by critical and 
colie Rive reafon, but contrary obfervations. Brown. —In 
grammar, a colleRive noun is a word which exprftfes a mul¬ 
titude, though itlelfbe lingular; as, a company, an army. 
COLLECTIVELY, adv. In a general mais; in a bo- 
ay; not fingly, not numbered by individuals; in the 
aggregate ; accumulatively; taken together; in a (fate of 
combination or union.—Singly and apart many of them 
are fubjecl to exception, yet colleRively they make up a 
good moral evidence. Hale. 
COLLECTOR,/. [colleRor, Lat.] A gatherer; he that 
collefts fcattered things together. A compiler ; one that 
gathers fcattered pieces into one book.—The bed Englifli 
hiftorian, when his liile grows antiquated, will be only 
conlidered as a tedious relater of fafts, and perhaps con- 
fulted to furnifh materials for fome future colleRor. Swift. 
—A tax-gatherer; a man employed in levying duties or 
tributes.— A great part of this trealure is now embezzled, 
iavifhed, and feafted away by colleRors, and other officers. 
Temple. 
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COLLE'DA, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and'country of Thuringia : twelve miles 
north of Weimar, and fixteen north-nofth-ead of Erfurt. 
COLLE'GATARY, f [from con and legatum, a le¬ 
gacy, Lat.] In the civil law, a perfon to whom is left a 
legacy in common with one other or more perfons. 
COL'LEGE, f. [collegium, Latin.] A community : a 
number of perfons living by fome common rules : 
On barbed deeds they rode in proud array, 
Thick as the- college of the bees in May. Dryden . 
A fociety of men fet apart for learning or religion s 
He is return'd with his opinions, 
Gather’d from all the famous colleges 
Almod in Cliridendom. Shakefpearc. 
The houfe in which the collegians refide.—Huldah the 
prophetefs dwelt in Jerulalem in the college. Kings .—A. 
college, in foreign umverlities, is a lecture read in public. 
Among the Romans, colleges Terved indid’erently for 
thole employed in the offices of religion, of government, 
the liberal and even mechanical arts, and trades; fo that, 
with them, the word fignified what we call a corporation 
or company, fimilar to our incorporated companies of 
freemen in London, which feem to have been founded on. 
the above inditution of the Romans. They had alfo the 
college of augurs, and the college of capitclini, i. e. of 
thofe who had the fuperintendence of the capitolfne 
games. Plutarch cblerves, that it was Numa who fird: 
divided the people into colleges ; which he did to the 
end that each conlulting the intereds of their college, 
whereby they were divided from the citizens of the other 
colleges, they might not enter into any general confpi- 
racy againd the public repofe. Each of thefe colleges 
haddidinft meeting places or halls, like ours iri London ; 
and likewil’e, in imitation of the date, a treafury and com¬ 
mon ched, a regider, and one to reprefent them upon 
public occalions, and afts of government. Thefe col¬ 
leges had the privilege of manumitting daves, of being 
legates, and making by laws for their own body, provid¬ 
ed they did not cladi with thofe of the government. 
The three political colleges of the German empire are 
the college of eleftors, or their deputies, affembled in the 
diet of Ratilbon. The college of princes, or body of 
princes, or their deputies, at the diet of Ratifbon. The 
college of cities, or body of deputies which the imperial 
cities fend to the diet. 
With us, the term college ufually denotes a public place 
endowed with certain revenues, where the feveral parts 
of learning are taught. An aflemblage of feveral of thefe 
colleges conditute an univerfity. The ereftion of col¬ 
leges is part of the royal prerogative, and not to be done 
without the king’s licence. The edablifhment of col¬ 
leges is a remarkable period in literary hidory. The 
fchools in cathedrals and monalteries confined themfelv.es 
chiefly to the teaching of grammar. There were only one 
or two maflers employed in that office. But, in colleges, 
profeflors are appointed to teach all the different parts of 
fcience,- The ffrd obfeure mention of academical degrees 
in the univerfity of Paris (from which the other univer- 
fities in Europe have borrowed mod of their cultoms and 
inditutions), occurs A. D. 1215. Seethe article Uni¬ 
versity. 
College of Civilians, commonly called Doftors 
Commons; a college founded by Dr. Harvey, dean of the 
arches, for the profeflors of the civil law redding in Lon¬ 
don : where ufually, likewife, relides the judge of the 
arches court of Canterbury, judge of the admiralty, of 
the prerogative court, &c. with other civilians ; who live, 
as to diet and lodging, in a collegiate manner, common- 
ing together ; whence the appellation of doftors com¬ 
mons. Their houfe being confumed in the great fire, 
they all refided at Exeter-houfe in the Strand till 1672 : 
when their former houfe was “rebuilt at their own ex- 
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