Collation

1. v. i. To partake of a collation.
2. v. t. The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
3. v. t. The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
4. v. t. The act of conferring or bestowing.
5. v. t. A conference.
6. v. t. The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
7. v. t. The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
8. v. t. The report of the act made by the proper officers.
9. v. t. 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.
10. v. t. A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
11. 1v. i. 1 To partake of a collation.

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.