Meaning

Bringing together..

Definitions by Sense

1. Bringing together.
2. Discussion, light meal.
3. (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
4. (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
5. (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
6. (obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.
7. (ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.
8. (computing, databases) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.

Example Sentences

Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people.

I […] collationed in Spring Garden.

Word Forms

• collations
• collationing
• collationed

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