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collation

noun
/kəˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

  1. derived from collatiō
  2. derived from collation
  3. inherited from collacioun

Definitions

  1. Bringing together.

    • November 8, 1717, The Bishop of Rochester, letter to Alexander Pope I return you your Milton, which, upon collation, I find to be revised, and augmented, in several places
    • The collation of philosophical opinions, the study of historical facts, the acquirement of languages, were at once my recreation, and the serious aim of my life.

  2. Discussion, light meal.

  3. The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of…

      The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.

    2. An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into…

      An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

    3. The act of conferring or bestowing.

      • Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people.

    4. Presentation to a benefice.

    5. The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.

    6. The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts…

      The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.

    7. To partake of a collation, or light meal.

      • I […] collationed in Spring Garden.

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Derived

cold collation, collational, collationer, miscollation, recollation

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for collation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA