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.
Collate \Col*late"\, v. i. (Ecl.)
To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the
patron and the ordinary.
If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the
right to do it devolves on the archbishop. --Encyc.
Brit.
Source : WordNet®
collate
v 1: compare critically; of texts
2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"