Literary notes about Collate (AI summary)
In literature the term "collate" often conveys a meticulous process of gathering, arranging, and comparing diverse pieces of information or texts with an eye toward accuracy and completeness. Writers use it to describe the careful examination of manuscripts and printed versions, whether it be aligning a text word for word with its original language ([1], [2]) or integrating separate accounts to form a cohesive narrative for historical or literary analysis ([3], [4]). The word also appears in contexts where scholars and editors diligently join together various materials—merging different manuscript traditions ([5], [6]) or synthesizing data from multiple reports or records ([7], [8])—to ensure that the final work reflects a true and thorough representation of its sources.
- I would fain understand this Psalm; but first I must collate it word by word with the original Hebrew.
— from Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Index Psalm LXXXVII I would fain understand this Psalm; but first I must collate it word by word with the original Hebrew.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I wanted to go over the whole matter, collate facts, sort evidence, before speaking.
— from A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller - The Black Prince, therefore, must be judged (if we collate all the evidence) to have looked forward to a general plan offering him two alternatives.
— from Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc - The John Cave MS. is a small collection of Donne's poems now in the possession of Mr. Elkin Matthews, who has kindly allowed me to collate it.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 2 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne - By the kindness of Lord Ellesmere I was permitted to collate his unique copy of the 1611 edition of the Anatomy of the World and Funerall Elegie .
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Donne - Both of these editors collate the text with other versions, and thus prepare the way for later and more accurate work.
— from The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns by Samuel Willoughby Duffield - He has been the first to collate the four oldest MSS., besides examining numerous others and collating them in certain passages.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Saint the Venerable Bede
