From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collate \Col*late"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Collated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collating}.] [From {Collation}.]
1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
I must collage it, 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.
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