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3 definitions found 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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