See Also: collation(1)(dictionary)
collation(2)(dictionary)
COLLATION, descents(law)
COLLATION, eccl(law)
COLLATION, practice(law)
COLLATION OF SEALS(law)

collation(2) (iou)



collation noun. ME.
[Old French collacion, -tion from Latin collatio(n-) collection, comparison, (in medieval Latin) conference, repast, formed as COLLATE verb: see -ATION.]
I. Conference.
a. In pl., John Cassian's Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium, Conferences of (and with) the Egyptian Hermits (AD 415-20); sing. a section of this work. ME.
b. A reading in a Benedictine monastery from this work, later also from any other edifying text, before the light meal taken at the end of the day; this meal; transf. (in mod. Roman Catholic usage) a light meal in the evening of a fast-day. ME.
A (private or informal) conference; a discourse, a homily, a treatise. LME-M17.
A light meal, esp. at an unusual time. Now chiefly in cold collation. E16.
II. Bringing together.
a. A collection, esp. of money; a contribution. obsolete exc. Scot. ME.
b. Roman & Scots Law. A bringing together of the whole estate and funds on which the children of a deceased parent have a claim in succession, including any funds etc. advanced previously to any of the children, for its subsequent equal division among them. E19.
The act of collating; comparison; esp. the textual or critical comparison of various documents, editions, etc. LME.
b. The recorded result of such textual etc. comparison; a set of corrections compiled after such comparison. L17.
The action of collating the sheets etc. of a document or printed book. M18.
III.
Conferring or bestowal (esp. of a dignity, honour, etc.). Now only Ecclesiastical, the bestowal of a benefice on a member of the clergy; the appointment (by the Ordinary) of a member of the clergy to a benefice. LME.
b. The right of institution to a benefice. Now rare. L15.
co'llational adjective of or pertaining to collation M20.