A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
The activity of collecting.
A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
Debt collection.
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Bringing together.
The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. from 14th c.
The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. from 19th c.
Discussion, light meal.
A collection, a gathering. from 20th c.
A conference or consultation. 14th-17th c.
The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) from 13th c.
A monasteries. from 14th c.
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. from 14th c.
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.
To partake of a collation, or light meal.