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De - Pt| English Dictionary: collate | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for collate | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Collate \Col*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Collated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collating}.] [From {Collation}.] 1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. --Coleridge. 2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding. 3. (Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to. 4. To bestow or confer. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Collate \Col*late"\, v. i. (Ecl.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary. If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. --Encyc. Brit. | |
