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Definition of Collate

1. Verb. Compare critically; of texts.

2. Verb. To assemble in proper sequence. "Collate the papers"

Definition of Collate

1. v. t. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

2. v. i. To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

Definition of Collate

1. Verb. (transitive) To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Collate

1. to compare critically [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Collate

collared flagellate collared lizard collared peccary collared pika collaret collarets collarette collarettes collaring collarless

collarmaker collarmakers collars collastin collatable collate (current term) collated collatee collatees collater

collateral collateral artery collateral branches of posterior intercostal arteries 3-11 collateral circulation collateral damage collateral digital artery collateral eminence collateral energy collateral estoppel collateral fissure

Literary usage of Collate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wills and Succession: Including Wills, and how to Make Them : Succession to by Allan McNeil (1896)
"Issue of predeceasing heir may collate.—By the Intestate Moveable Succession Act of 1855, it is provided that, where the person predeceasing would have been ..."

2. The Civil Law in Its Natural Order by Jean Domat (1850)
"OF THE PERSONS WHO ARE BOUND TO collate, AND TO WHOM THE COLLATION OUGHT TO BE ... He who renounces the Inheritance does not collate, unless it be for the ..."

3. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1860)
"to the whole dead's part; and therefore cannot be called on to collate by his ... If the heir is an only surviving child, he may be called on to collate by ..."

4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1871)
"In earlier times a Bishop, judging a patron's nominee unfit, could proceed at once to collate to the benefice ; and by the canon law, " any one taking money ..."

5. Handbook of the Roman Law by Ferdinand Mackeldey, Moses Aaron Dropsie (1883)
"The foregoing obligation to collate must have been imposed at the making of the gift, that is, the gift must have been made on condition that it wa» to be ..."

6. A Law Dictionary: Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1856)
"One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place for various reasons. See Legacy, Lapsed. collate to a vacant benefice ..."

7. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"... investing, or installation thereof or thereunto had, the same shall be eftsoons merely void; and the patron shall present, collate unto, give, ..."

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