different between collate vs colligate

English

Etymology

From Latin coll?tum, past participle of c?nfer?. Not related to collateral.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??le?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?.le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: col?late

Verb

collate (third-person singular simple present collates, present participle collating, simple past and past participle collated)

1. (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
   • c. 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer

     I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.

2. (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101

     Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.

3. (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.

4. (obsolete) To bestow or confer.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)

5. (transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

Translations

Latin

Participle

coll?te

1. vocative masculine singular of coll?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colligatus, past participle of colligare (“to collect”).

Verb

colligate (third-person singular simple present colligates, present participle colligating, simple past and past participle colligated)

1. (transitive) To tie or bind together.
   • 1821, William Nicholson, "ISINGLASS", in American Edition of the British Encyclopedia

     The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.

2. (transitive) To formally link or connect together logically; to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
   • 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, Life and Letters of Faraday

     He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful […] phenomena.

Translations

Anagrams

• co-tillage, cotillage

Latin

Verb

collig?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collig?

References

• colligate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colligate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette