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 Col·late v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating.]
 1. 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.   --Coleridge.
 2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
 3. Eccl. To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
 4. To bestow or confer. [Obs.]