Meaning

• Bringing together.

• Discussion, light meal.

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

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

• (inheritance) 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 act of conferring or bestowing.

• Presentation to a benefice.

Meaning

• To partake of a collation, or light meal.