v. t.
I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge. [ 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. ]
If by direct or by collateral hand
They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . .
To you in satisfaction. Shak. [ 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 ]
Yet the attempt may give
Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line;
Collateral assurance,
Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.),
Collateral issue. (Law)
Collateral security,
collateral damage, (Mil.)
n.
adv.
These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]
The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being collateral. [ 1913 Webster ]