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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collected \Col*lect"ed\, adjective
1. Gathered together.
2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collect \Col*lect"\ (k[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), verb (used with an object) [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}, verb (used with an object), {Cull}, verb (used with an object)]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
collected
adjective
1: brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: {gathered}] [ant: {uncollected}, {uncollected}]
2: brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated letters in my office" [syn: {accumulated}, {amassed}, {assembled}, {congregate}, {massed}]
3: 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: {equanimous}, {poised}, {self-collected}, {self-contained}, {self-possessed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "collected": accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, allied, amassed, assembled, associated, assured, at ease, backlogged, balanced, banded together, bound, bracketed, bunched, bundled, calm, clumped, clustered, combined, comfortable, complacent, composed, confident, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoined, connected, controlled, cool, copulate, coupled, cumulate, easy, easygoing, equanimous, equilibrious, fascicled, fasciculated, garnered, gathered, glomerate, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, heaped, hoarded, imperturbable, in session, incorporated, integrated, intimate, joined, joint, knotted, laid up, leagued, levelheaded, linked, lumped, massed, matched, mated, meeting, merged, nonchalant, packaged, paired, peaceful, piled, placid, poised, possessed, quiet, recollected, sanguine, sedate, self-assured, self-confident, self-controlled, self-possessed, self-restrained, self-satisfied, serene, smug, spliced, stacked, still, stockpiled, stored, sure, tied, together, tranquil, treasured, undivided, unexcited, unflappable, united, unperturbed, unruffled, unseparated, wedded, well-balanced, wrapped up, yoked
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