Noun

(en noun)

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.

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, year=1937-1952 , author=Jorge Luis Borges , title=Other Inquisitions citation , passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of ''''''classification'''''' and ordered '''tabulation'''.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the ' age of judgement .

Noun

Bringing together.

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

(Alexander Pope)

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

# A collection, a gathering.

#* 2010 , Will Dean, The Guardian , 29 Apr 2010:

It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.

Discussion, light meal.

# (obsolete) A conference or consultation.

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

#* 1563 , John Foxe, Acts and Monuments , vol. 2, p. 55:

A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all

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

#* 1843 , TD Fosbroke, British Monachism , p. 52:

When the hymn was over the Sacrist was to strike the table for collation , and the Deacon to enter with the Gospel, preceded by three converts, carrying the candlestick and censer.

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

# Any light meal or snack.

#* 2008 , Tim Hayward, The Guardian , 13 May 08:

Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation , left out by cook before retiring.

(ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

(legal, Scotland) 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.

(obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.

* Francis Bacon

Not by the collation of the king but by the people.