collation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
homophone: colation
Forms: form: collations
Etymology: From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).
Senses: examples: text: 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
text: 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.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Bringing together.
The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
glosses: Bringing together.
The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
examples: text: It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.
ref: 2010 April 29, Will Dean, The Guardian:
glosses: Bringing together.
A collection, a gathering.
glosses: Discussion, light meal.
A conference or consultation.
examples: text: A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all […]
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page [55]:
glosses: Discussion, light meal.
The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
examples: text: When the hymn was over the Sacrist was to strike the table for collation, and the Deacon to enter with the Gospel, preceded by three converts, carrying the candlestick and censer.
ref: 1843, TD Fosbroke, British Monachism, page 52:
glosses: Discussion, light meal.
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
glosses: Discussion, light meal.
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
examples: text: Her first glance was one of triumph—her next was one of mingled admiration and gratitude for Louis; and, accepting his offered hand, they led the way to the banquet prepared in the Palais Orion,—a favourite garden-house, where they often had collations when the party was but small, which was the case to-day.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 138:
text: There were some unofficial local rejoicings, but none of the elaborate junketings which marked the birth of earlier railways. The company had little cash to spend on sumptuous cold collations, and the like.
ref: 1955 April, R. K. Kirkland, “The Staines Branch, Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 227:
text: Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation, left out by cook before retiring.
ref: 2008, Tim Hayward, The Guardian, 13 May 08:
glosses: Discussion, light meal.
Any light meal or snack.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
synonyms: hotchpot
qualifier: civil law; inheritance; civil law; inheritance
glosses: The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
qualifier: civil law; inheritance; civil law; inheritance
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Empire”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of conferring or bestowing.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Presentation to a benefice.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
textual-criticism
glosses: 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.
Derived terms: cold collation
collational
collationer
miscollation
recollation
Related terms: collocation
co-locating
co-location