COLLATE, kol-[=a]t', _v.t._ to bring together for comparison: to examine
and compare, as books, and esp. old manuscripts: to place in or confer a
benefice upon: to place in order, as the sheets of a book for
binding.--_adj._ COLL[=A]'TABLE.--_ns._ COLL[=A]'TION, act of collating: a
bringing together for examination and comparison: presentation to a
benefice: a repast between meals, from the habit of reading the
_collationes_ or lives of the Fathers during meals in monasteries.--_adj._
COLL[=A]'TIVE, having the power of conferring: of livings where the bishop
and patron are one and the same person.--_n._ COLL[=A]'TOR, one who
collates or compares: one who bestows or presents. [L. _conferre_,
_collatum_--_con_, together, _ferre_, to bring.]
COLLATERAL, kol-at'[.e]r-al, _adj._ side by side: running parallel or
together; corresponding; descended from the same ancestor, but not
directly, as the children of brothers.--_n._ a collateral relation: a
contemporary: a rival.--_adv._ COLLAT'ERALLY. [L. _col_, and _latus_,
_lateris_, a side.]
COLLEAGUE, kol'[=e]g, _n._ one associated with others in some
employment--not of partners in business.--_n._ COLL'EAGUESHIP. [Fr.
_collègue_--L. _collega_--_col_, together, and _leg[)e]re_, to choose.]
COLLEAGUE, kol'[=e]g, _v.i._ to join or unite: to conspire:--_pr.p._
colleaguing (kol-[=e]g'ing); _pa.p._ colleagued (kol-[=e]gd'). [From O. Fr.
_colliguer_, to join in alliance--L. _collig[=a]re_, to bind together.]
COLLECT, kol-ekt', _v.t._ to assemble or bring together: to infer: to put
one's thoughts in order.--_v.i._ to run together: to accumulate.--_ns._
COL'LECT, a short form of prayer, peculiar to the liturgies of the Western
Church, consisting of a single sentence, conveying one main petition;
COLLECT[=A]'NEA, a selection of passages from various authors: a
miscellany.--_adj._ COLLECT'ED, gathered together: having one's senses
gathered together: cool: firm--_adv._ COLLECT'EDLY.--_ns._ COLLECT'EDNESS,
self-possession: coolness; COLLEC'TION, act of collecting: collecting of
money at a religious or public meeting: the money collected: a number of
anything: an assemblage: a book of selections: composure: an examination at
the end of the terms in certain colleges.--_adj._ COLLECT'IVE, considered
as forming one mass or sum: congregated: common: (_Milt._) inferential:
(_gram._) expressing a number or multitude.--_adv._ COLLECT'IVELY.--_ns._
COLLECT'IVISM, the economic theory of socialism, that industry should be
carried on with a collective capital; COLLECT'IVIST, a socialist--also
_adj._; COLLECT'OR, one who collects, as tickets, money, &c.;
COLLECT'ORATE, COLLECT'ORSHIP. [L. _collig[)e]re_, _collectum_, from _col_,
together, and _leg[)e]re_, to gather.]