Collation vs Initiative - What's the difference?
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Bringing together.
# 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.
#* 2010 , Will Dean, The Guardian , 29 Apr 2010:
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 reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
#* 1843 , TD Fosbroke, British Monachism , p. 52:
# 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:
(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
(obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.
* Evelyn
A beginning; a first move.
A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
The ability to act first or on one's own.
An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
* John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions , , ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
As nouns the difference between collation and initiative
is that collation is bringing together while initiative is .As a verb collation
is (obsolete) to partake of a collation, or light meal.collation
English
(wikipedia collation)Noun
- (Alexander Pope)
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation , left out by cook before retiring.
- Not by the collation of the king but by the people.
Verb
(en verb)- May 20, 1658, I collationed in Spring Garden.
initiative
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (issue to be voted on) direct initiativeDerived terms
* direct initiativeAdjective
(-)- The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.