collate

verb5

1. •
   To assemble something in a logical sequence.

   • Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum. — 1922
2. •
   To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.

   • Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
3. •
   To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.

   • The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
   • collate results
4. •
   To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.
5. •
   (no longer used) To bestow or confer.

   • Because those hereticall Bishops being deposed and reduced into Lay-communion, could not therefore collate baptisme for their want of holy Orders: […] — 1651