collation

Meanings

Noun

• Bringing together.
• Discussion, light meal.
• The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
• The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
• 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.
• The act of conferring or bestowing.
• Presentation to a benefice.

Verb

• To partake of a collation, or light meal.

Origin

• From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō. Not related to English collateral.