collate

present singular third person collates · participle present collating · participle past collated · past collated

1. transitiveTo examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.

   collate data

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   The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.

   collate findings

   collate information

   collate results

   I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.

   c. 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer

2. transitiveTo assemble something in a logical sequence.

   "Once collated, all files are sent to an external printing business with a turnaround time of about seven days, and then most of the distribution is done in-house.

   2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65

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   Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.

   1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 106

3. transitiveTo sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.

   Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.

4. obsoleteTo bestow or confer.

   Becauſe thoſe hereticall Biſhops being depoſed and reduced into Lay-communion, could not therefore collate baptiſme for their want of holy Orders: […]

   1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section IV”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 23

5. transitiveChristianityTo admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.