collate

1. (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.Examples: "The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy."; "I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew."transitive

2. (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.Examples: "Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum."; ""Once collated, all files are sent to an external printing business with a turnaround time of about seven days, and then most of the distribution is done in-house."transitive

3. (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.Examples: "Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents."transitive

4. (obsolete) To bestow or confer.Examples: "Becauſe thoſe hereticall Biſhops being depoſed and reduced into Lay-communion, could not therefore collate baptiſme for their want of holy Orders: […]"obsolete

5. (transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.transitive