collation

1. The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. (countable, uncountable)
2. The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. (countable, uncountable)
3. A collection, a gathering. (countable, uncountable)
4. The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) (countable, uncountable)
5. A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries. (countable, uncountable)
6. The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. (countable, uncountable)
7. Any light meal or snack. (countable, uncountable)
8. The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. (countable, uncountable)

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