a. Capable of being collated. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating. ] [ From Collation. ] 1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bestow or confer. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Ecl.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bishop neglects to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. collateralis; col- + lateralis lateral. See Lateral. ] 1. Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. “Collateral light.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acting in an indirect way. [ 1913 Webster ]

If by direct or by collateral hand
They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . .
To you in satisfaction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he [ Attebury ] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet the attempt may give
Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Genealogy) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collateral assurance, that which is made, over and above the deed itself. --
Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.), circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed. --
Collateral issue. (Law) (a) An issue taken upon a matter aside from the merits of the case. (b) An issue raised by a criminal convict who pleads any matter allowed by law in bar of execution, as pardon, diversity of person, etc. (c) A point raised, on cross-examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question. --
Collateral security, security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security. --
collateral damage, (Mil.) damage caused by a military operation, such as a bombing, to objects or persons not themselves the intended target of the attack. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. A collateral relative. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Side by side; by the side. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In collateral relation; not lineally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being collateral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. collacioun speech, conference, reflection, OF. collacion, F. collation, fr. L. collatio a bringing together, comparing, fr. collatum (used as the supine of conferre); col- + latium (used as the supine of ferre to bear), for tlatum. See Tolerate, v. t. ] 1. The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of conferring or bestowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A conference. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) (a) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity. (b) The report of the act made by the proper officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Scots Law) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To partake of a collation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Print.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collatitius. See Collation. ] Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collativus brought together. ] Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] 1. One who collates manuscripts, books, etc. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Law) One who collates to a benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who confers any benefit. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decollated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decollating. ] [ L. decollatus, p. p. of decollare to behead; de- + collum neck. ] To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. decollatio: cf. F. décollation. ] 1. The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist. [ 1913 Webster ]