vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of COLLATION vb., in various senses.
1652. Evelyn, State of France, Misc. Writ. (1805), 50. The peril of disbauched and frequent collationings.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 290. Nothing but a strict collationing of them can assure us. Ibid. (1716), II. 333. As may be evidenc’d by the Collationing of the Registry.
