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<i>Pope.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of conferring or bestowing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Not by the <b>collation</b> of the king . . . but by the people. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A conference.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Eccl. Law)</fld> <def>The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The report of the act made by the proper officers.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld> <def>The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equaly with others who are of the same degree of kindred.</def>

<note>&hand; This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana.</note>

<i>Bouvier.</i>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Eccles.)</fld> <def>A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A light repast or luncheon; <as>as, a cold <ex>collation</ex></as>; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>collation</b> of wine and sweetmeats. <i>Whiston.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Collation of seals</col> <fld>(Old Law)</fld>, <cd>a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine.</cd>

<i>Bouvier.</i> </cs>

<h1>Collation</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*la"tion</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To partake of a collation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>May 20, 1658, I . . . <b>collationed</b> in Spring Garden. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Collationer</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*la"tion*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Collatitious</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col`la*ti"tious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>collatitius</ets>. See <er>Collation</er>.]</ety> <def>Brought together; contributed; done by contributions.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Collative</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*la"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>collativus</ets> brought together. ]</ety> <def>Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.</def>

<h1>Collator</h1> <Xpage=278>

<hw>Col*la"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who collates manuscripts, books, etc.</def>