ALL meanings of collation
col·la·tion
C c - noun collation the act or process of collating 3
- noun collation a description of the technical features of a book 3
- noun collation a light meal permitted on fast days 3
- noun collation any light informal meal 3
- noun collation the appointment of a clergyman to a benefice 3
- noun collation the act, process, or result of collating 3
- noun collation a conference or gathering, as of monks at the close of the day to listen to a reading from a religious book and to discuss it 3
- noun collation a light meal: originally such a meal was served in a monastery during the collation (sense 2) 3
- noun collation the physical description of a book, including the trim size, number of pages and illustrations, etc. 3
- noun collation The action of collating something. 1
- noun collation the act of collating. 1
- noun collation Bibliography. the verification of the number and order of the leaves and signatures of a volume. 1
- noun collation a light meal that may be permitted on days of general fast. 1
- noun collation any light meal. 1
- noun collation (in a monastery) the practice of reading and conversing on the lives of the saints or the Scriptures at the close of the day. 1
- noun collation the presentation of a member of the clergy to a benefice, especially by a bishop who is the patron or has acquired the patron's rights. 1
- noun collation putting in order, assembling 1
- noun collation light meal 1
- noun collation Bringing together. 0
- noun collation Discussion, light meal. 0
- noun collation (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. 0
- noun collation (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance. 0
- noun collation (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred. 0
- noun collation (Obsolete (No longer in use)) The act of conferring or bestowing. 0
- verb collation (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To partake of a collation, or light meal. 0