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noun
Collation  n.  
1.
The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
2.
(Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
3.
The act of conferring or bestowing. (Obs.) "Not by the collation of the king... but by the people."
4.
A conference. (Obs.)
5.
(Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
6.
(Law)
(a)
The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
(b)
The report of the act made by the proper officers.
7.
(Scots Law) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred. Note: This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana.
8.
(Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
9.
A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. "A collation of wine and sweetmeats."
Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine.



verb
Collation  v. i.  To partake of a collation. (Obs.) "May 20, 1658, I... collationed in Spring Garden."






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"Collation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Spanish Gitano with those of the Moorish tongue, preceding both with those of the Hungarian Gypsy, of which we have already made use, for the purpose of making clear the affinity of that language to the Sanscrit and Persian. By this collation we shall at once perceive whether the Gitano of Spain bears most resemblance to the Arabic, or the Rommany of ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow

... our measure, not by our own real and intrinsic qualifications, but by the stature of other men's, and if we find any disadvantage in others, or any pre-eminence in ourselves, in such a partial application and collation of ourselves with others (as readily self love, if it find it not, will fancy it), then we have a tacit gloriation within ourselves, and a secret complacency in ourselves. But the humble Christian dares not make himself of that number, nor boast of things without his measure. ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... careful scrutiny, extracts being made from those that appeared in the writer's judgment reliable. Out of a large number examined up to the present time, several hundred have been laid under contribution, and the labor of further collation still continues. ...
— An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians • H. C. Yarrow

... intending to deceive, should be sent back to learn the elements of some one of the more easy physical sciences. Such reasoners ignore the fact of Plurality of Causes in the very case which affords the most signal example of it. So little could be concluded, in such a case, from any possible collation of individual instances, that even the impossibility, in social phenomena, of making artificial experiments, a circumstance otherwise so prejudicial to directly inductive inquiry, hardly affords, in this case, ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... to appear by proxy at such meetings. Polly disliked to go, not being, in fact, a "hens'-rights hen," transferred her stock to me. I, after going once, disliked it more than she. But Dennis went to the next meeting, and liked it very much. He said the arm-chairs were good, the collation good, and the free rides to stockholders pleasant. He was a little frightened when they first took him upon one of the ferry-boats, but after two or three quarterly meetings ...
— If, Yes and Perhaps - Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact • Edward Everett Hale


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