Category:Collate

Col*late", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating.] Etym: [From Collation.]

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.)

Defn: 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.

collate Col*late", v. i. (Ecl.)

Defn: 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.