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Collate v. t. (past & past part. collated; pres. part. collating)

To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. "I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew."

To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

(Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.

To bestow or confer. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Collate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collate" Quotes from Famous Books

... decline at about the time of the Roman rise to world-power. There are some distinguished names, but, as a general rule, the spirit of the times is reminiscent rather than creative; the workers tend to collate the researches of their predecessors rather than to make new and original researches for themselves. Eratosthenes, the inventive world-measurer, was succeeded by Strabo, the industrious collator of facts; Aristarchus ...

— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... they bear their own meaning on the surface;" a moment's analysis will scatter such an idea to the winds. Yet the terms are passed by. The commentators set themselves right earnestly to compare and to collate, to argue and to analogize, on the meaning of the term "days;" the other term "created" they take for granted without—as far as I am aware—single line of explanation, or so much as a doubt whether they know ...

— Creation and Its Records • B.H. Baden-Powell

... Rector of the University of Giessen, forcibly deplored the chasm which, as he said, is opening between preparatory criticism and general culture: textual criticism loses itself in insignificant minutiae; scholars collate for the mere pleasure of collating; infinite precautions are employed in the restoration of worthless documents; it is thus evident that "more importance is attached to the materials of study than to its intellectual results." The Rector of Giessen ...

— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois

... of a scientific inquiring spirit. We are, of course, not absolutely sure that all the contents of the books come from Hildegarde. Subsequent students often made notes in these manuscript books, and then other copyists copied these into the texts. Unfortunately we have not a number of codices to collate and correct such errors. Most of what Hildegarde wrote comes to us in a single copy, of none are there more than four copies, showing how near we came to missing all knowledge of ...

— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

Words linked to "Collate" : gather, garner, collation, compare, collect, order, pull together