collate Meaning, Definition & Usage

Col*late" transitive verb

Etymology

From Collation.

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Collated; present participle & verbal noun Collating

Definitions

1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

   I must collage it, 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" intransitive verb

Definitions

1. (Ecl.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

   If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit.