Collect, 1) to gather, to assemble: “the sums I have --ed,” John IV, 2, 142. “c. them all together at my tent,” H5 IV, 1, 304. “have you --ed them by tribes?” Cor. III, 3, 11. Used of the raising of an army: “the navy is addressed, our power --ed,” H4B IV, 4, 5. H5 I, 2, 305. II, 4, 19. H6A IV, 4, 32. H6B III, 1, 313. Of the gathering of medicinal herbs: “thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds --ed,” Hml. III, 2, 268. “an unction --ed from all simples,” IV, 7, 145. Hence == to gather for medicinal purposes: “some prescriptions of rare and proved effects, such as his reading and manifest experience had --ed for general sovereignty,” All's I, 3, 229.
2) to gather, to infer, to conclude: “made me c. these dangers in the duke,” H6B III, 1, 35. “relate what you have --ed out of the Duke of Buckingham,” H8 I, 2, 130. “produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles --ed from his life,” III, 2, 294.
3) to recover, to compose: “be --ed; no more amazement,” Tp. I, 2, 13. “affrighted much, I did in time c. myself and thought this was so and no slumber,” Wint. III, 3, 38.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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