collation

1. Discussion, light meal.countableobsoleteuncountable

2. Discussion, light meal.Examples: "A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all […]"countablein-pluraluncountable

3. (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.countableuncountable

4. (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.Synonyms: hotchpotcountableuncountable

5. (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.Scotlandcountableuncountable

6. (obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.Examples: "Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people."countableobsoleteuncountable