Verb

(collat)

To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.

The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.

* Coleridge

I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.

To assemble something in a logical sequence.

* 1922 , , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101

Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.

To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.

Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.

(obsolete) To bestow or confer.

(Jeremy Taylor)

(Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to .

Verb

(combin)

To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

* (John Dryden)

You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

So sweet did harp and voice combine .

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To have two or more things or properties that function together.

Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

To come together; to unite.

two substances that easily combine

(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

* (William Shakespeare)

I am combined by a sacred vow.