FromLatincollātus,perfectpassiveparticiple ofconferō, see-ate(verb-forming suffix).Doublet ofconfer. See alsoinfer,delate anddefer (Etymology 2),relate andrefer, as well asprelate andprefer among others. Not related tocollateral.
collate (third-person singular simple presentcollates,present participlecollating,simple past and past participlecollated)
- (transitive) Toexaminediversedocuments and so on, todiscoversimilarities anddifferences.
The young attorneys were set the task ofcollating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
- (transitive) Toassemble something in alogicalsequence.
1922,Virginia Woolf,Jacob’s Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page101: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 mustcollate editions in the British Museum.
2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, inRAIL, number940, page65:"Oncecollated, 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.
- (transitive) Tosort multiple copies ofprinted documents into sequences of individualpageorder, one sequence for eachcopy, especially beforebinding.
Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
- (obsolete) Tobestow orconfer.
1651,Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section IV”, inClerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published1655,→OCLC, paragraph 4,page23:Becauſe thoſe hereticall Biſhops being depoſed and reduced into Lay-communion, could not thereforecollate baptiſme for their want of holy Orders:[…]
- (transitive, Christianity) Toadmit acleric to abenefice; topresent andinstitute in abenefice, when the person presenting is both thepatron and theordinary; followed byto.
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Seecollocate § Usage notes.
examine diverse documents, etc.
assemble something in a logical sequence
—see alsoarrangesort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order
—see alsoarrangeadmit a cleric to a benefice
collāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofcollātus
