collected

Etymology

collect + -ed

adj

1. (not comparable) Gathered together.
   the collected works of Charles Dickens
2. Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus.
   He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.
   There is no man here so young—and we have some very young members—but he must have observed, must have known from the impulses of his own mind and his own feelings, that, when in a state of high excitement, a man's judgment is not so accurate, not so effectual, not to be relied upon to such an extent, as when he is cool, calm and collected. That is an axiom in morals, in the history of human life, about which I suppose there will be no question. Are we now in that condition? June 16, 1864, Ezekiel F. Chambers, edited by W. M. Blair Lord and Henry M. Parkhurst, The Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Maryland

verb

1. simple past and past participle of collect