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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collate \Col*late"\, v. 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 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collate \Col*late"\, v. i. (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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
collate
v 1: compare critically; of texts
2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers" [syn: {collect}]
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