collationn.
/kəˈleɪʃən/ I. Bringing together, comparison.† 1.
a. A bringing together or collection, esp. of money; a contribution. Obsolete.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. xv. 26 To make sum collacioun [L. collationem], or gedrynge of moneye.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Symbolum, a shotte: a collation.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. xxv. 196 The collation and gathering of a small donative.
1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 67 They publish'd also in Sermons the Collations, that is, the Alms which they commonly collected every Sunday for the Poor.
b. Roman Law and Scots Law. The throwing together of the possessions of several persons, in order to an equal division of the whole stock; hotch-pot; Latin collatio bonorum.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > equal division of inherited property
hotchpot1528
gavelkind?1530
hotchpotch1602
commixtion1607
commixture1706
hodgepot1721
gavel1827
collation1828
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Collation 5. In Scots law, the right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
1886 J. Muirhead Encycl. Brit. XX. 714 The application of the principle of collation to descendants generally, so that they were bound to throw into the mass of the succession before its partition every advance they had received from their parent in anticipation of their shares.
c. collation of seals n. see quot.
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1708–15 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Collation of Seals (in ancient Deeds), when one Seal was set on the Back of another, upon the same Ribbon, or Label.
So 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1848 in Wharton
2. The action of bringing together and comparing; comparison.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun]
evennessOE
eveningc1225
collationc1374
respitea1382
comparison1393
proportion?a1425
resemblance?a1439
comparation1483
comparing1489
commensuration1526
parificationc1537
conferring1561
paragon1590
counter-scale1645
counterbalance1647
collibration1656
confrontation1665
similituding1681
simile1682
confronting1887
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. iv. 125 Ellys he mot shewe þat þe colasioun of proposiciouns nis nat spedful to a necessarie conclusioun.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xviii. 43 An angel..vnderstondyth and knowyth sodaynly wythout collacion of one thynge to a nother.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 86 That the trueth may appeare by collation of the diuers reportes.
1646 T. Philipot Poems 43 A Collation between Death and Sleep.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. xi. 65 The Hebrew and Egyptian Language had some things commun; from the collation whereof, some light may arise.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ ii. §1 A close and attentive collation of the three writings.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. 430.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxiv. 278 This..necessarily supposes a comparison,—a collation, between existence and non-existence.
3.
a. esp. Textual comparison of different copies of a document; critical comparison of manuscripts or editions with a view to ascertain the correct text, or the perfect condition of a particular copy.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison of texts > [noun]
collation1532
conference1538
collationing1715
collating1746
1532 W. Thynne in Wks. Chaucer Ded. sig. Aijv/2 The contrarietees and alteracions founde by collacion of the one [imprinte] with the other.
1568 Proc. Hampton-Court 13 Dec. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) App. 52 The originals..were duly conferred and compared..with sundry other lettres..in collation whereof no difference was found.
1765 S. Johnson Pref. to Shakespear's Plays p. lxi By collation of copies or sagacity of conjecture.
1868 F. J. Furnivall Temp. Pref. Canterb. Tales (Chaucer Soc.) 5 The MS. was old and good enough to deserve collation for the next edition of Chaucer.
b. The recorded result of such comparison; a set of corrections or various readings obtained by comparing different copies.
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society > communication > book > edition > [noun] > collation
collation1699
variorum1955
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. iv The Collation, it seems was sent defective to Oxon.
1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 392 Erasmus desires Aldrige to get him a Collation of Seneca..from a Manuscript of King's College.
1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 54 Bentley's collation [of Codex A]..is yet in manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge.
c. Law. (See quot. 1728.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison of texts > [noun] > of legal documents
collation1728
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Collation, in Common Law, is the Comparison, or Presentation of a Copy to its Original, to see whether or no it be conformable: or the Report, or Act of the Officer who made the Comparison.
4. Printing and Bookbinding.
a. The action of collating the sheets or quires of a book or MS.
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society > communication > printing > post-printing processes > [noun] > collating
collating1879
collation1882
1882 W. Blades Life & Typogr. W. Caxton 131 In Caxton's books the collation of the sheets preceded the folding.
b. A description of a book or manuscript by its signatures or the number of its quires, and a statement of the sheets or leaves in each quire; also, a list of the various contents of a book and of the pages or parts of pages occupied by them.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [noun] > arrangement or treatment of sheets > description by or statement of number of quires
collation1834
1834 Lowndes Bibliogr. Man. Pref. He gives neither the collation nor prices of books.
1882 W. Blades Life & Typogr. W. Caxton 133 These indications..enable us to decide, even where printed signatures are wanting, the true collation of a book.
1882 W. Blades Life & Typogr. W. Caxton 173 The Game and Play of the Chess moralised..Collation.—Eight 4ns and one 5n = 74 leaves.
II. Conference, discourse, refection, light repast.† 5. † b. A discourse, sermon, or homily; a treatise, exposition. Obsolete.figurative.1652 A. Ross Hist. World Pref. 13 Here they may have a short Collation after a long Feast.a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 96 May he be pleased to behold this my brief Description of Surrey, as a Running Collation to stay his Stomack, no set meal to satisfie his hunger.1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) I. 18 The public..now murmured at the want of that salt and acidity by which they had relished the fugitive collation [sc. a literary journal].
a. A personal conferring together; consultation, conference, esp. of a private or informal sort.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > private or secret
rounOE
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consultc1634
huddle1929
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xii. 43 Collacioun [L. collatione], or spekinge to gidre.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 269 Yit wol I..That in my chambre, I and thou and sche Have a collacioun.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. v. 120 They ought not there to argue and dispute one agaynst an other, But they ought to make good and symple colacion to geder.
1538 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 77 Quhen thay wald mak collatioun, With any lustie companyeoun.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 85 Baronius and Binnius will in no case allow this for a Councill..onely they call it a Collation.
1666 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 176 Collation with our officers.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture
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predicationa1325
lessonc1330
collation1417
sermocination1514
discourse1533
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transcursion1641
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by-discourse1660
screed1748
purlicue1825
rhesis1840
talk1859
lecturette1867
chalk talk1881
pi-jaw1896
society > faith > worship > parts of service > homily > [noun]
lorespellc1000
sermona1200
homilyc1386
collation1417
humble1550
pronea1670
society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of
lorespellc1000
sermona1200
predicationa1325
preachingc1350
collation1417
preachmentc1460
postils1483
preacha1550
exercise1597
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pronea1670
stick1759
1417 J. Forester in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) IX. 434 Cardenal Comeracence..had purposit..to have y maad the ferste Collation to for the Kynge.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. viiv He made vnto them colacions or exortacions & toke for his Anteteme. Haurietis aquas in gaudio de fontibus saluations.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ci. [xcvii.] 295 The archebysshope of Canterbury sang the masse; and after masse ye bissoppe made a collacyon.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Miiii We shall first declare by ordre thre thynges, and so procede in this pore collacion or treatyse.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xii. 273 The collacion..made in the pulpite on Sondaies and haly daies.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 65 If any Priest came..into the village, the inhabitants thereof would gather about him, and desire to haue some good lesson or collation made vnto them.
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. vi. 101 in Church-hist. Brit. Bilney..for the present..gave them a Collation.
6. † b. In Old English, collationes, as above, was rendered þurhtogenes raca, þa þurhtogenessa, also simply race, recednesse, c1200 þa raca, i.e. relations, narratives, discourses, and in Middle English collation had the sense: Relation, account. Obsolete.c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxxii. 153 It is wel..myn entencioun þat þou make me þer of collacioun.
a. The title of the celebrated work of John Cassian, a.d. 410–420 Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium, i.e. Conferences of (and with) the Egyptian Hermits.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] > writings of
collationc1200
the four books (or the Book) of the Sentence(sa1387
catena1644
didache1853
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > conferences
collationc1200
talk1952
c540 Regula S. Benedicti lxxiii Nec non et Collationes Patrum et Instituta et Uita eorum, sed et Regula sancti patris nostri Basilii.]
c1200 Winteney Rule St. Benet lxxiii Oððe þa collatiuns, þæt Iohannes Cassianus awrat, & þere haliȝere manna lif þe on Uitas Patrum is ȝeredd, & þe regol ures haliȝes fader Basilies.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 155 Ase zayþ þe boc of collacions of holy uaderes.
a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 18 It is preued in vitas patrum, þat is to seye, in lyues & colaciouns of fadris.
a1500 Orol. Sap. in Anglia X. 357 Þe boke of lyfe of fadres & her collacyons.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 516/2 Cassianus in the .xi. collacion the .xii. chapter.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles xvii. (T.) No book was more read in the following ages than Cassian's Collations.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 341 [Fast] St. Benedict..requires his religious to assemble after supper and before compline and listen to ‘collations’—i.e. conferences (of Cassian), the lives of the fathers or other edifying books.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun]
spellc888
talec1000
telling?c1225
relationc1390
fablec1400
collationc1430
deliverance1431
narrationc1449
exposition1460
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recital1565
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reporting1603
retailing1609
recountmenta1616
narrative1748
narrating1802
deducement1820
recountal1825
retailment1832
c540 Regula S. Benedicti xlii Mox ut surrexerint a cena, sedeant omnes in unum, et legat unus collationes, vel vitas patrum, aut certe aliquid quod edificet audientes..Accedant ad lectionem Collationum.
a1000 Rule St. Benet (Schröer) xlii Ræde him mon þa raca oðþe lif þæra heahfædera.
a1000 O.E. Rule St. Benet (Logeman) xlii And ræde an þurhtogenes race oððe on ealdfædera lifa..Hi gan to rædinge race oððe recednesse.
c1200 Winteney Rule St. Benet xlii And ræde an þa raca oððe lif þære heahfadera.]
7. ‘The reading from the Collationes or lives of the Fathers, which St. Benedict ( Regula xlii, see 6b) instituted in his monasteries before compline’ ( Dict. Christian Antiq.).Whether the name actually originated in the Collationes Patrum read on these occasions does not appear certain. Already in Isidore, a640, the name is simply collatio (Regula S. Isidori c. viii, ‘ad audiendum in Collatione Patrem..ad collectam conveniant..Sedentes autem omnes in Collatione tacebunt nisi,’ etc. Du Cange). By Smaragdus a850, and Honorius of Autun (c1300), the collatio is explained as being itself a conference of the monks upon the passage read, ‘aliis conferentibus interrogationes, conferunt alii congruas responsiones’. (See Du Cange.)
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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > compline > [noun] > collation read before
collationa1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 121 After þe nyȝt collacioun sche wook anon to þe day.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 373 He wolde be at þe colacioun of monkes, and made þe general confessioun wiþ oþere.
1482 Monk of Evesham vi. 26 The mene while..hit range to the collacyon and the bretheren..went thense.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riiiiv Redyng in the refectory or in the chapiter hous at collacion.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 165 Before Complyn ye haue a collacion, where ys redde some spyrytuall matter of gostly edyfycacion.
1536 R. Beerley Let. in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 35 Monckes drynk an bowll after collacyon tell ten or xii. of the clock.
8. Extended to the light repast or refection taken by the members of a monastery at close of day, after the reading or conference mentioned in sense 7. (Many quotations combine senses 7 and 8.) Hence, in modern Roman Catholic usage, A light repast made in lieu of supper on fasting days.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper
supperc1300
collationc1305
mid-dinnera1500
Sunday suppera1580
supper1598
evening meal1620
late dinner1649
ordinary suppera1661
petit souper1751
souper1787
ball supper1794
tray supper1825
kitchen supper1837
bump supper1845
evenmeat1848
tea-dinner1862
luncheon1903
c1305 Land Cokayne 145 [The monks] Wendith meklich hom to drinke And geth to har collacione.
1582 A. Munday Eng. Romayne Lyfe sig. D3v The time of Studie expired, the Bell calleth them from their Chambers, downe into the Refectorium: where euerie one taketh a glasse of Wine, and a quarter of a Manchet, & so he maketh his Collatione.
1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 84 This is that which is call'd Collation..after the Conference they took Water or Wine, and a mouthful of Bread to support their Necessities.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. xi. 324 The Lady-abbess..gave a collation to the Padre-abate, and such of the priests as had assisted at the vesper-service.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 342 [Fast] The quantity permissible at collation has been gradually enlarged. St. Charles..only allows a glass of wine with an ounce and a half of bread to be taken as a collation on the evening of fasting days.
9. Hence, in gen. use, A light meal or repast: one consisting of light viands or delicacies (e.g. fruit, sweets, and wine), or that has needed little preparation (often ‘a cold collation’). ‘A repast; a treat less than a feast’ (Johnson).‘Originally applied to a repast between ordinary meals, and still retaining much of that character.’ ( N.E.D.)
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > light meal or snacks
nuncheonc1260
morsela1382
refection?a1439
mixtumc1490
bever1500
banquet1509
collation1525
snatch1570
beverage1577
a little something1577
anders-meat1598
four-hours1637
watering1637
refreshment1639
snap1642
luncheona1652
crib1652
prandicle1656
munchin1657
baita1661
unch1663
afternooning1678
whet1688
nacket1694
merenda1740
rinfresco1745
bagging?1746
snack1757
coffee1774
second breakfast1775
nummit1777
stay-stomach1800
damper1804
eleven o'clock1805
noonshine1808
by-bit1819
morning1819
four1823
four o'clock1825
lunch1829
stay-bit1833
picnic meal1839
elevens1849
Tommy1864
picnic tea1869
dinnerette1872
merienda1880
elevenses1887
light bite1887
soldier's supper1893
mug-up1902
tray1914
café complet1933
nosha1941
namkeen1942
snax1947
snackette1952
chaat1954
ploughman's lunch1957
munchie1959
playlunch1960
short-eat1962
lite bite1965
munchie1971
ploughman1975
aperitivo2002
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xci. [lxxxvii.] 272 Than wyne and spyces were brought in, and so made collasyon.
1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence 75 (R.) Such bankettes are called collacions, a collatum, tu, that is of laiyng together every one his porcion.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Collation,..also, a collation, rere~supper, or repast after supper.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 183 Very few which (besides their ordinary of dinner and supper) doe not Gouster, as they call it, and make collations, three or foure times the day.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 6 July (1971) IV. 197 Came to the Hope about one, and there..had a collacion of anchoves, Gammon, &c.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. vii. 536 A collation of wine and sweetmeats was prepared.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 196 Supping in different lodges on cold collations.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 40 Ladies come hither sometimes in the summer with collations.
1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (new ed.) II. 205 A plentiful and delicate collation was spread..with abundance of fruit and wine.
III. Conferring, preferment to office, etc.† 10. Conferring or bestowal (esp. of a dignity, prize, benefit, honorary degree). Obsolete except as in 11.
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the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > conferring
attribution1467
conferring1561
collation1579
bestowing1608
instating1647
bestowment1754
conference1869
bestowal1870
conferment1877
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ii. 116 Honoring in him by the collacion of that dignitie, the vertue he showed in the battell.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 47 In the collation of holy Orders.
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xxxvii. 217 Mutuall reception or translation, or collation of light and nature betwixt them.
1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 88 The donation or collation of the power is from the Community.
a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 271 In the Collation, 'tis not the gold or the silver..in which the Benefit consists, but the will and benevolent intention of him that bestows them.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 225 Neither are we to give thanks alone for the first collation of these Benefits.
1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 128/1 The collation of the prize has been deferred.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 32 The indiscriminate collation of degrees has justly taken away that respect which they originally claimed.
11. Christian Church. † d. ? A certificate of recommendation to a benefice. Obsolete. [ < French la provision du collateur.]
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a. The bestowal of a benefice or other preferment upon a clergyman.
b. (more usually) The appointment of a clergyman to a benefice; now, technical. Institution by the ordinary to a living which is in his own gift.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [noun]
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c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 305 It haþ fallen ofte tymes..þat two men have grace at oo tyme of oo collacioun.
1421 King Henry V in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. iii. 30 I. 71 Hit is wel oure entent whanne any sucche benefice voydeth of oure yifte yat ye make collacion to him yr of.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiii. 605/1 They had enacted against all Collations of Bishoprickes and dignities by the Pope.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 112 Where the Churchmen come in, and are elected, not by the Collation of the King, or particular Patrons, but by the People.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 64 Collation is properly the bestowing of a Benefice by the Bishop, that hath it in his owne gift or patronage.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 391 When the ordinary is also the patron, and confers the living, the presentation and institution are one and the same act, and are called a collation to a benefice.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. i. i. 22 The earliest record of an actual collation by the chancellor of a master to a grammar school.
c. Right of institution.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > induction to > right of
collation1480
1480 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 58 That..the priour of the Monasterie of Bury..shuld have the gyfte and collacion of the same.
1536 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 42 §6 in Enactments Parl. conc. Univ. Oxf. & Cambr. (1869) 18 Any Parsonnage, Vicarage, Chauntrie or any other promocion spirituall..being..of the collacion or patronage of the said College.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iv. 79 And the Statute of provisors..the King and his heires, shall have and enjoy for the time the collations to the Archbishopricks and other dignities elective.
1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. ii. iii. 46 Pope Clement IV reserv'd to himself the Collation of all the vacant Benefices.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [noun] > documents relating to
titlec1400
exhibit1630
collation1646
1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar (1708) II. 293 Before their Right could be compleated or perfected, they were to return to the King from the Superintendent a Collation or Certificate, That he was of that Ability to do good Service to the King and Church.
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† collationv.
Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To make a collation of; to compare (different copies, etc.); to collate v.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison of texts > compare documents [verb (transitive)]
collation1568
collatea1657
1568 Jrnl. Commissioners 8 Dec. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) App. 37 The said Erle of Murray..did thereupon deliver the copies, being collationed.
1693 Burnet Let. in Brit. Mag. 35 376 As for the dates..I might haue writ them wrong, or collationed them too negligently.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xi. 358 They supplicate for a double of their petition; which being refused, they collationed their memories and wrote down their petition.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 346 If those..were by proper hands collection'd, collation'd, and edition'd.
b. Printing and Bookbinding. = collate v. 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > post-printing processes > [verb (transitive)] > collate
collation1656
gather1683
collate1770
1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) To collation a Book; that is, to look diligently by the letters or figures at the bottom of every page, to see that nothing be wanting or defective.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 350 Before he Folds the Books he will Colation them.
2.
a. intransitive. To partake of a collation; to lunch.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating meals > eat meal [verb (intransitive)] > eat light meal
to eat (or take) a sopc1330
mistea1425
banquet1564
bever1607
collation1611
snack1807
sandwich1815
nosh1892
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Collationner,..also, to collation it, or make a rere-supper.
1658 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 345 I went to see a coach-race in Hyde-Park, and collationed in Spring Garden.
a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. ii. v. 117 They..all three..collationed and supped all under one.
b. transitive. To entertain with a collation.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > entertain with food
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1662 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 389 They were likewise collationed with us, and were very merry.
a1695 T. Dineley Acct. Progr. Duke of Beaufort (1864) 66 His Grace was collation'd according to his quality.
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