A collection, a gathering.
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.
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.
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.
A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.
A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
Having ammunition loaded to full allowable power, usually in reference to magnum handgun cartridges and shotgun shells.