Obs. [f. prec. verb + -ER.] 1. One who makes a collation of a book, etc.; a collator.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., II. 350. To do this the Colationer provides himself with a Bodkin.
2. One who partakes of a collation.
1786. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary (1842), III. 99. We, meanwhile, untitled attendants, stood at the other end of the room … all strictly facing the royal collationers.
