Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Collate \Col*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Collated}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Collating}.] [From {Collation}.]
   1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order
      to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

            I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew.
                                                  --Coleridge.

   2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for
      binding.

   3. (Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the
      person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; --
      followed by to.

   4. To bestow or confer. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.