collation

1. Bringing together.

   (countable, uncountable)The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.

   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

2. (countable, uncountable)The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.

3. (countable, uncountable)A collection, a gathering.

4. Discussion, light meal.

   (countable, in the plural, uncountable)The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)

5. (countable, uncountable)A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.

6. (countable, uncountable)The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.

   a light informal meal

7. (countable, uncountable)Any light meal or snack.

8. (countable, uncountable)The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

9. (countable, uncountable)The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.

10. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)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.

11. (countable, uncountable)Presentation to a benefice.

12. (countable, uncountable)The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.

1. A fine collation was served, but the young Prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he occupied with her.

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