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Collate v. t. (past & past part. collated; pres. part. collating)

To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. "I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew."

To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

(Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.

To bestow or confer. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Collate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collate" Quotes from Famous Books

... the gods, and as representing the successive generations of that invisible family, whose history not one or ten bards, but the whole bardic and druidic organisation of the island, delighted to record, collate, and verify—those pedigrees are as reliable as that of any of the regal clans. They represent accurately the mythological panorama, as it unrolled itself slowly through the centuries before the imagination and spirit of our ancestors accurately ...

— Early Bardic Literature, Ireland • Standish O'Grady

Words linked to "Collate" : gather, collect, order