collate

Etymology

From Latin collātum, past participle of cōnferō. Not related to collateral.

verb

1. (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, 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.
   I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew. c. 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer
2. (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
   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. 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 101
   "Once collated, all files are sent to an external printing business with a turnaround time of about seven days, and then most of the distribution is done in-house. September 22 2021, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65
3. (transitive) 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.
4. (obsolete) To bestow or confer.
5. (transitive, 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.