Definition of Self-collected

1. Adjective. In full control of your faculties. "Strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"

Exact synonyms: Collected, Equanimous, Poised, Self-contained, Self-possessed
Similar to: Composed
Derivative terms: Equanimity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-collected

self-aware
self-awareness
self-belief
self-billing
self-blood
self-build
self-built
self-care units
self-censorship
self-centered
self-centeredness
self-centration
self-centred
self-centreedness
self-cleaning
self-collected (current term)
self-colored
self-coloured
self-command
self-commitment
self-complacency
self-complacent
self-conceit
self-conceited
self-conceitedly
self-concern
self-condemnation
self-confessed
self-confessed(a)
self-confidence

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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