collation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun Bringing together.
2. 2
   noun Discussion, light meal.
3. 3
   noun The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
4. 4
   noun (inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
5. 5
   noun (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.
6. 6
   noun The act of conferring or bestowing.
7. 7
   noun Presentation to a benefice.
8. 8
   verb To partake of a collation, or light meal.