The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
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.
Presentation to a benefice.
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
Any light meal or snack.
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.
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
A solemn assembly or council.