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Definition of Self-collected
1. Adjective. In full control of your faculties. "Strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
Similar to: Composed
Derivative terms: Equanimity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-collected
Literary usage of Self-collected
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1848)
"Here amidst a sea of epithets both "cold and hot, and moist and dry," we have a
description of one who is self-collected at the same moment that he is lost ..."
2. The Hindu System of Self-culture of the Patanjala Yoga Shastra by Kishori Lal Sarkar (1902)
"Now yoga consists of securing a state of being self-collected, of self-commanding
... In fact the state of being self-collected by yoga, results in being ..."
3. Miscellaneous Remarks Upon the Government, History, Religions, Literature by John R. Peters (1849)
"... thoroughly virtuous, tranquil and self-collected, in favors unbounded, who in
virtue is the equal of the exalted and expansive heavens, and in goodness, ..."
4. Miscellaneous Remarks Upon the Government, History, Religions, Literature by John R. Peters (1849)
"... thoroughly virtuous, tranquil and self-collected, in favors unbounded, who in
virtue is the equal of the exalted and expansive heavens, and in goodness, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Poetry by Henry Bernard Cotterill (1882)
"his stubborn, " great self-collected" soul. And the play is concluded by his ...
It would be easy to show the heroic self- collected character of ..."
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