COLLECT (2)
Source: 566, 567
collect (2). Collect, n. a short comprehensive prayer
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Col‐lect″, v. i. 1. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
2. 2. To infer; to conclude.
Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.