Collate

1. v. i. To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.
2. v. t. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
3. v. t. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
4. v. t. To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; — followed by to.
5. v. t. To bestow or confer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.