COLLATE

vt to bestow or confer.

2. collate ·vt to gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

3. collate ·vi to place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

4. collate ·vt to compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

5. collate ·vt to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary;

— followed by to.