Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COL-LATE', v.t. [L. collatum, collatus; con and latum, latus; considered to be the supine and participle of fero, confero, but a word of distinct origin. Literally, to bring or lay together. Hence,]

1. To lay together and compare, by examining the points in which two or more things of a similar kind agree or disagree; applied particularly to manuscripts and books; as, to collate copies of the Hebrew Scriptures.
2. To confer or bestow a benefice on a clergyman, by a bishop who has it in his own gift or patronage; or more strictly, to present and institute a clergyman in a benefice, when the same person is both the ordinary and the patron; followed by to. If the patron neglects to present, the bishop may collate his clerk to the church. – Blackstone.
3. To bestow or confer. – Taylor.
4. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book, for binding.