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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.