v. [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, trans. 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. 101. The euidence of which two places collated, none but such as are willingly blind 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.
1867. Lockyer, Guillemin’s Heavens (ed. 2), 194. Mr. Herschel … has recently collated the observations undertaken to determine the heights of meteors.
1868. E. Edwards, Ralegh, I. xxii. 506. The events of history were collated with the maxims of science.
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., 59–60. The learned Professor … when he collated the Gr. printed Text, with the Lambeth MS.
1699. Bentley, Phal., Pref. p. vi. 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. [Luckombe], Concise Hist. Printing, 490–1. 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…. He 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. W. 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), 171–2. 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., 59. 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. Eccles. † 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 Govr within 6 months after any Church shall become void, the Govr 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.
1694. E. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., III. i. 359. If the Archbishop doth not collate in half a Year more it [the Living] lapses to the King.
1697. C’tess. D’Aunoy’s Trav. (1706), 60. She is Superior of Seventeen Convents; Collates to several Benefices.
1846. Prescott, Ferd. & Is., I. Introd. 37. The sovereign held the right … of collating to benefices.
