collate, v.
(kəˈleɪt)
[f. L. collāt- ppl. stem of conferre to confer. Cf. OF. collater, in sense of collating documents (14th c. in Godefroy).]
I. To put or bring together, compare.
† 1. trans. To contribute; to bring together. Obs.
| 1678 Bp. Nicholson Expos. Catech. 25 Every particular Apostle did cast in and collate his Article to make up this Sum [the Apostles' Creed]. |
b. Roman Law. (see collation 1 b.)
| 1880 Muirhead tr. Rules Ulpian xxviii. §4 Bonorum possessio is granted..to emancipated children, if they are prepared to give security to their brothers..that they will collate (i.e. bring into division) the estate belonging to them at their father's death. |
2. To bring together for comparison; to compare carefully and exactly, in order to ascertain points of agreement and difference.
| 1612 Bacon Ess., Judicature (Arb.) 454 To recapitulate, select, and collate the materiall points of that which hath beene said. 1612 T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 The evidence of which two places collated, none..can resist. 1670 Milton Hist. Eng. i. 27 Computing or collating years and Chronologies. 1780 Burke Sp. at Bristol Wks. III. 381 He has visited all Europe..not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: but..to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. 1797 Godwin Enquirer i. vi. 43 Collating one language with another. 1868 E. Edwards Raleigh I. xxii. 506 The events of history were collated with the maxims of science. 1868 Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens 194 Mr. Herschel..has recently collated the observations undertaken to determine the heights of meteors. |
3. esp. To compare critically (a copy of a text) with other copies or with the original, in order to correct and emend it.
| 1658 W. Burton Itin. Anton. 60 The learned Professor..when he collated the Gr. printed Text with the Lambeth MS. 1699 Bentley Phal. Pref. 6 Mr. Bennet desir'd me to lend him the Manuscript Phalaris to be collated. 1768 Johnson Pref. to Shaks. Wks. IX. 292, I collated such copies as I could procure. 1868 Furnivall Temp. Pref. Canterb. T. (Chaucer Soc.) 2, I went..specially to collate part of the Harleian MS. 7334 with Mr. Thomas Wright's print of it. 1875 Scrivener Lect. Grk. Test. 13 To collate the whole mass, that is to compare their mutual variations with some common standard. |
b. To compare a copy of a legal document with the original, and duly verify its correctness.
| 1683 Apol. Prot. France v. 72 We will that the same credit shall be given to Copies duly collated..as to the present Original. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Collation, A collated act is equivalent to an original; provided all the parties concerned were present at the collation. |
4. Printing and Bookbinding. To examine the sheets of a printed book by the signatures, so as to ascertain that they are perfect and in correct order.
| 1770 Concise Hist. Printing 491 The Collating of books is—First to examine whether the whole number of sheets that belong to a Book are gathered in the Book..To do this the Collater provides himself with a bodkin..and pricks up the corner of the first sheet A..till he has collated the whole impression, etc. 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 411 Having collated a gathering, he lays it on his left. 1882 Blades Caxton 131 To enable the binder to collate the sheets of each section correctly, it was the custom..to place distinguishing marks on the first page of each sheet. 1885 C. G. Warnford Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 229/1 For collating, the book is held in the right hand, at the right top corner. |
II. To confer, bestow, appoint.
† 5. To confer or bestow on, upon (a person); to give or grant to. Obs. exc. as in next.
| 1581 Savile Tacitus' Hist. iv. (1591) 172 That the Empire..by him was collated vpon Vespasian. 1597 Daniel Civ. Wares ii. cxv, He must collate The same on others. 1642 Answ. Printed Bk. 27 The good old wayes of bestowing offices and collating honours. 1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 96 The Goodness they are possess'd of is collated by God to them. |
6. Eccl. † a. To confer (a benefice) on (a person).
| 1558 in Strype Ann. Ref. I. ii. 65 The said Bishoprick was justly collated and given to Nicolas Ridley, D.D. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. i. §17 Many Italians..had the fattest livings in England by the Pope collated upon them. c 1670 Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws 146 The Right of the King, and other Patrons to collate Bishopricks and other Benefices within the Realm of England. |
b. To appoint or institute (a cleric) to a benefice. Now said of an ordinary who institutes to a living in his own gift or patronage, or which has lapsed to him by neglect or disablement of the patron.
| 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. (1702) I. iv. 239 The King..collated to those Sees, Dr. Prideaux..Dr. Winniff. 1703 Sir E. Northey in W. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 128 If the Parishioners do not present a minister to the Gov{supr} within 6 months after any Church shall become void, the Gov{supr} as ordinary shall and may collate a Clerk to such Church by lapse. 1704 Nelson Fest. & Fasts (1739) 602 When any Person is presented or collated to any Benefice. 1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif viii. 272 He refuses to collate the Pope's nephew..to a Canonry..of Lincoln. |
c. absol. (without direct object): To appoint to a benefice; to have such appointment in one's gift.
| 1606 Act 3 James c. v. ¶18 Euery..Popish Recusant conuict..shall..be vtterly disabled to..collate or nominate to any Free-schoole, Hospitall, or Donatiue whatsoeuer. 1697 C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 60 She is Superior of seventeen Convents; Collates to several Benefices. 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. i. (1743) 143 If the Bishop does not collate in half a year more, it [the Living] lapses to the Archbishop. 1846 Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. Introd. 37 The sovereign held the right..of collating to benefices. |