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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



... by the manufacture of Brie cheese lately gave his daughter a 100,000 francs, L40,000, as a dowry. The wedding breakfast took place at the Grand Hotel, Paris, and a hundred guests were invited to partake of a sumptuous collation. But in spite of fine clothes and large dowries, farmers' wives and daughters still attend to the dairies, and, when they cease to do so, doubtless farming in Seine et Marne will no longer be the prosperous business we ...
— Holidays in Eastern France • Matilda Betham-Edwards
... eagerly collated the volume, and at first found it right witli all the usual signatures correct. The leaves were not paged or folioed. But on further collation I missed sundry of the Psalms, enough to fill four leaves. The puzzle was finally solved when it was discovered that the inexperienced printer had marked the sheet with the signature w after v, ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle
... "late." [24] In addition to a copy of the text, accompanied by a good photograph, Dr. Langdon furnished a transliteration and translation with some notes and a brief introduction. The text is unfortunately badly copied, being full of errors; and the translation is likewise very defective. A careful collation with the original tablet was made with the assistance of Dr. Edward Chiera, and as a consequence we are in a position to offer to scholars a correct text. We beg to acknowledge our obligations to Dr. Gordon, the Director of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, ...
— An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic • Anonymous
... have passed in a state of depravation through all the editions is indubitably certain; of these the restoration is only to be attempted by collation of copies or sagacity of conjecture. The collator's province is safe and easy, the conjecturer's perilous and difficult. Yet as the greater part of the plays are extant only in one copy, the peril must not be avoided, ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot
... from the leaves and branches of the oak, thousands of little jets of water leaped forth, falling like fine rain upon the masses of natural vegetation that flourished amid the artificial. At the sides of the bosquet there were two tables of marble, on which a collation was served when the marquise came to her grove to see the waters play. In 1704 the King ordered Mansard to destroy the Marais and transform the bosquet into ...
— The Story of Versailles • Francis Loring Payne


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