ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
a. Of persons, the mind, etc.: (see COLLECT v. 3).
1611. Beaum. & Fl., Maid’s Trag., IV. ii. What a wild beast is uncollected man!
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. i. Fearing lest those often idle fits Might clean expel her uncollected wits.
1639. Bp. Reynolds, Lord’s Supper, xviii. Sudden, uncomposed, & uncollected thoughts.
1718. Prior, Solomon, II. 291. Asham’d, confus’d I … to my Soul yet uncollected said: Into Thy self, fond Solomon, return.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, lxiii. My mind was so uncollected … that I could not feel assured of it for a minute.
b. Of things: (see COLLECT v. 1, 1 b).
1730. Thomson, Autumn, 731. As when of old…, Light, uncollected, thro’ the Chaos urg’d Its infant way.
1828–32. Webster, s.v., Uncollected taxes; debts uncollected.
1847. L. Hunt, Title-p., Men, Women, and Books. A Selection … from his uncollected Prose Writings.
