vbl. sb. [f. COLLATE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb COLLATE.

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1642.  Jer. Taylor, Episc. (1647), 175. Bishops had a power of imposing hands, for collating of Orders.

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1746.  W. Melmoth, Pliny, V. viii. (1757), 276 (R.). The collating of the several historians will be extremely troublesome.

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1879.  Bookbdg., in Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 40/1. Arranging and Collating.

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