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Collation :: Collation (v. i.) To partake of a collation.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general..

Mandate :: Mandate (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation..

Decollation :: Decollation (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred..

Dejeuner :: Dejeuner (n.) A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation..

Kettledrum :: Kettledrum (n.) An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.

Decollation :: Decollation (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist..

Collative :: Collative (a.) Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

Collationer :: Collationer (n.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc..

Provision :: Provision (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The act of conferring or bestowing.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A conference.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The report of the act made by the proper officers.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

Picnic :: Picnic (v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves)..

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