ambrosia vs collation

ambrosia

noun
  • Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance. 

  • Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect. 

  • A dessert made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream. 

  • Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing. 

  • The anointing-oil of the gods. 

  • The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality. 

  • A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae. 

  • An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys. 

collation

noun
  • Any light meal or snack. 

  • 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. 

  • A collection, a gathering. 

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

  • Presentation to a benefice. 

  • A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries. 

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

  • The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) 

  • The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. 

  • The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. 

  • The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted. 

  • The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. 

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