Word Finder - collation

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Bringing together.

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Discussion, light meal.

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

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(inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.

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• hotchpot

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(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.

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The act of conferring or bestowing.

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Presentation to a benefice.

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To partake of a collation, or light meal.

The text of the second was based on the fullest collation of MSS.

I got a cold collation here to make her sit up.

C. Thompson, who published their results in 1907 under the title, The Inscription of Darius the Great at Behistun, including a full illustrated account of the sculptures and the inscription, and a complete collation of the text.

Other presses were at work in Italy; and, as the classics issued from Florence, Rome or Milan, Aldo took them up, bestowing in each case fresh industry upon the collation of codices and the correction of texts.

To the technical philosophers, who strictly confine themselves to the logical collation and criticism of scientific methods, he has, contrariwise, not seemed philosophic enough.

There is no collation of power or order but a simple admission to an office.

The whole of antiquity seemed precious in the eyes of its discoverers; and even a thinker so acute as Pico di Mirandola dreamed of the possibility of extracting the essence of philosophical truth by indiscriminate collation of the most divergent doctrines.

The collation of this manuscript by Immanuel Bekker first placed the textual criticism of Demosthenes on a sound footing.

Valuing them is a huge task involving the collation of a lot of evidence.

For collection of material the edition of Holmes and Parsons (Oxford, 1798-1827), with its magnificent critical apparatus, is pre-eminent; the preparation of a similar edition, on a rather smaller scale but embodying the results of fresh and more careful collation, was subsequently undertaken by Cambridge scholars.'

The evidence of extant manuscripts must be ascertained by collation.

In this work he first brought before English students a careful collation of the readings of the chief MSS.

Subscriptions to the amount of nearly £io,000 were obtained, and many learned men addressed themselves to the work of collation, Bruns of Helmstadt making himself specially useful as regarded MSS.

It yielded no materials of value for the emendation of the received text, and by disregarding the vowel points overlooked the one thing in which some result (grammatical if not critical) might have been derived from collation of Massoretic MSS.

When applied to Catheter related bloodstream infections the study populations were homogenous enough to allow collation.

The Oxford definition also includes the collation of existing knowledge.

This requires collation of all materials on the project, particularly those relating to the ' real planning ' exercise.

This is the default setting and provides the fastest collation but will only produce correct results for languages that do not use accents.

This report provides useful context and we welcome the call for better information collation.

Work has progressed further in 2002 with the development of a database, collation of data and reporting of Public Broadcaster International Benchmarking.

Repeated handling of the sort entailed in collation seems inadvisable in their present condition.

Normalization and Accents The Collation object automatically normalizes text internally to separate accents from base characters where possible.

By the Simony Act 1713 if any person shall for money, reward, gift, profit or advantage, or for any promise, agreement, grant, bond, covenant, or other assurance for any money, &c., take, procure or accept the next avoidance of or presentation to any benefice, dignity, prebend or living ecclesiastical, and shall be presented or collated thereupon, such presentation or collation and every admission, institution, investiture and induction upon the same shall be utterly void; and such agreement shall be deemed a simoniacal contract, and the queen may present for that one turn only; and the person so corruptly taking, &c., shall be adjudged disabled to have and enjoy the same benefice, &c., and shall be subject to any punishment limited by ecclesiastical law.

Sichard at Basel in 1529, and reissued by Heinrich Peter in 1549 another edition appeared at St Blaise in 1790 under the supervision of Ussermann; and a third, as a result of the collation of numerous MSS., forms part of vol.

A wide range in space was proved by the identification of the Inselsteine and the Ialysus vases with the new style, and a wide range in time by collation of the earlier Theraean and Hissarlik discoveries.

The manuscripts of the time are accurate and artistic, copies of valuable books were made and by careful collation the texts were purified.

The complete autograph of the biography, acquired by John Bigelow in 1867 from its French owners, upon collation with Temple Franklin's edition showed that the latter contained 1200 emasculations and that it omitted entirely what had been written in 1790.

In order that the principles already perceived by Capellus might be satisfactorily applied in establishing a critical text, many things were needed; for example, a complete collation of existing MSS.

The importance of both the Stephanus and Elzevir editions is that they formed a definite text for the purposes of comparison, and so prepared the way for the next stage, in which scholars busied themselves with the investigation and collation of other MSS.

In the latter case what we have are not "collations," for the art of collation was not understood till the 10th century, but selections or "excerpts" of readings which we have reason to fear are often imperfect and erroneous.

Collation, which otherwise corresponds to institution, does not make the church full, and the true patron can dispossess the clerk at any time, unless he is a patron who collates.

The text finally followed in printing was that of Van der Hooght - unpointed however, the points having been disregarded in collation - and the various readings were printed at the foot of the page.

He has there not only demonstrated, from the external and internal evidence alike, the spuriousness of the whole treatise, but in a collation (extending to nearly a hundred pages) of numerous passages with corresponding passages in classical medieval authorities, has also traced out the various sources whence Bertram derived the terminology and the facts which he reproduced in the De Situ.