Meaning
1. To lay together and compare, by examining the points in which two or more things of a similar kind agree or disagree; applied particularly to manuscripts and books; as, to collate copies of the Hebrew Scriptures.
2. To confer or bestow a benefice on a clergyman, by a bishop who has it in his own gift or patronage; or more strictly, to present and institute a clergyman in a benefice, when the same person is both the ordinary and the patron; followed by to.
If the patron neglects to present, the bishop may collate his clerk to the church.
3. To bestow or confer; but now seldom used, except as in the second definition.
COLLATE, v.i. To place in a benefice, as by a bishop.
If the bishop neglects to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop.
