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Webster 1913 Edition
Collate
Col-late′
(kŏl-lāt′)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Collated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Collating
.] [From
Collation
.] 1.
To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
I must
collate
it, word by word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.
2.
To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
3.
(Eccl.)
To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; – followed by to.
4.
To bestow or confer.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.
Col-late′
,Verb.
I.
(Ecl.)
To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.
If the bishop neglects to
collate
within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit.
Webster 1828 Edition
Collate
COLLATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To lay together and compare, by examining the points in which two or more things of a similar kind agree or disagree; applied particularly to manuscripts and books; as, to collate copies of the Hebrew Scriptures.2.
To confer or bestow a benefice on a clergyman, by a bishop who has it in his own gift or patronage; or more strictly, to present and institute a clergyman in a benefice, when the same person is both the ordinary and the patron; followed by to.If the patron neglects to present, the bishop may collate his clerk to the church.
3.
To bestow or confer; but now seldom used, except as in the second definition.Definition 2024
collate
collate
English
Verb
collate (third-person singular simple present collates, present participle collating, simple past and past participle collated)
- (transitive) To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.
- The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
- Coleridge
- I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
- (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
- Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
- (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
- Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
- (obsolete) To bestow or confer.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
- (transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.
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Translations
examine diverse documents etc.
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assemble something in a logical sequence
sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order
admit a cleric to a benefice
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