collation

The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.

The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.

A collection, a gathering.

A conference or consultation.

The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)

A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.

The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.

Any light meal or snack.

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.