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Webster 1913 Edition

Collation

Col-la′tion

,
Noun.
[OE.
collacioun
speech, conference, reflection, OF.
collacion
, F.
collation
, fr. L.
collatio
a bringing together, comparing, fr.
collatum
(used as the supine of
conferre
);
col-
+
latium
(used as the supine of
ferre
to bear), for
tlatum
. See
Tolerate
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
Pope.
2.
(Print.)
The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
3.
The act of conferring or bestowing.
[Obs.]
Not by the
collation
of the king . . . but by the people.
Bacon.
4.
A conference.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
5.
(Eccl. Law)
The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
6.
(Law)
(a)
The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
(b)
The report of the act made by the proper officers.
7.
(Scots Law)
The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
☞ This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana.
Bouvier.
8.
(Eccles.)
A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
9.
A light repast or luncheon;
as, a cold
collation
; – first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
A
collation
of wine and sweetmeats.
Whiston.
Collation of seals
(Old Law)
,
a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine.
Bouvier.

Col-la′tion

,
Verb.
I.
To partake of a collation.
[Obs.]
May 20, 1658, I . . .
collationed
in Spring Garden.
Evelyn.

Webster 1828 Edition

Collation

COLLATION

, n.
1.
The act of bringing or laying together, and comparing; a comparison of one copy or thing of a like kind with another.
2.
The act of conferring or bestowing; a gift.
3.
In the canon law, the presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift or patronage. Collation includes both presentation and institution. When the patron of a church is not a bishop, he presents his clerk for admission, and the bishop institutes him; but if a bishop is the patron, his presentation and institution are one act and are called collation.
4.
In common law, the presentation of a copy to its original, and a comparison made by examination, to ascertain its conformity; also, the report of the act made by the proper officers.
5.
In Scots law, the right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
6.
A repast between full meals; as a cold collation.
Collation of seals, denotes one seal set on the same label, on the reverse of another.

Definition 2024

collation

collation

English

Noun

collation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural collations)

  1. Bringing together.
    1. The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. [from 14th c.]
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
    2. The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. [from 19th c.]
    3. A collection, a gathering. [from 20th c.]
      • 2010, Will Dean, The Guardian, 29 Apr 2010:
        It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.
  2. Discussion, light meal.
    1. (obsolete) A conference or consultation. [14th-17th c.]
    2. (in the plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) [from 13th c.]
      • 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, vol. 2, p. 55:
        A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all […]
    3. A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries. [from 14th c.]
      • 1843, TD Fosbroke, British Monachism, p. 52:
        When the hymn was over the Sacrist was to strike the table for collation, and the Deacon to enter with the Gospel, preceded by three converts, carrying the candlestick and censer.
    4. The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. [from 14th c.]
    5. Any light meal or snack. [from 16th c.]
      • 2008, Tim Hayward, The Guardian, 13 May 08:
        Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation, left out by cook before retiring.
  3. (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
  4. (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
    1. Synonymous: hotchpot.
  5. (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
  6. (obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.
    • Francis Bacon
      Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people.

Translations

Verb

collation ‎(third-person singular simple present collations, present participle collationing, simple past and past participle collationed)

  1. (obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.
    • Evelyn
      May 20, 1658, I […] collationed in Spring Garden.

Translations

French

Noun

collation f ‎(plural collations)

  1. (used in collation des grades) the process of granting an academic degree.
  2. (Canada) a light snack usually taken between breakfast and lunch (often employed as the analogue of English brunch).

Middle French

Noun

collation f (plural collations)

  1. discussion

References

Old French

Noun

collation f ‎(oblique plural collations, nominative singular collation, nominative plural collations)

  1. discussion

References

Etymology

From Old French collation, from Latin collationem, from the participle stem of conferre ‎(“to bring together”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈleɪʃən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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