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noun
1.
the act of collating.
2.
Bibliography. the verification of the number and order of the leaves and signatures of a volume.
3.
a light meal that may be permitted on days of general fast.
4.
any light meal.
5.
EXPAND(in a monastery) the practice of reading and conversing on the lives of the saints or the Scriptures at the close of the day.
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Collation
is always a great word to know.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Word Origin & History
collation
late 14c., from O.Fr. collation, from L. collationem, noun of action from collatus, pp. of conferre "to bring together" (see collate). The word has had many meanings over the centuries. As the title of a popular 5c. religious work by John Cassian, "Collation" was sometimes
EXPANDtranslated into O.E. as þurhtogenes.
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