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collator|kəˈleɪtə(r)|
Also 5–7 -our, 7–8 -er.
[a. L. collātor contributor, etc., agent-n. f. collāt- (see collate). Cf. F. collateur.]
†1. One who collects, a collector. Obs. rare.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy v. xxxiv, And in all haste throughout all the towne The collatours gathered vp the golde.
2. One who collates copies of a text or document.
1601Bp. Barlow Defence 87 Any collatour, indifferent, and learned in the Originals, comparing ours with theirs, etc. 1711Addison Spect. No. 105 ⁋9 An Editor, or Collator of a manuscript. 1768Johnson Pref. to Shaks. Wks. IX. 292 The collator's province is safe and easy, the conjecturer's perilous and difficult. 1875Scrivener Lect. Grk. Test. 18 Few employments..task the eyesight and skill of a collator so much as this.
3. One who collates the sheets or contents of a book, for binding, or for bibliographical purposes.
1770Concise Hist. Printing 490 The collater provides himself with a bodkin..and pricks up the corner of the first sheet A. 1879Delamotte Bookbinding in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 40/2 Maps, diagrams, and illustrations..have to be added afterwards, and this is done by the Collator.
†4. ? One who takes part in a conference or discussion; a disputant. Obs. rare.[Cf. St. Augustine Ep. 147 Collatorem enim et disputatorem..se esse cupiebat.] 1628J. Doughty Ch.-Schismes 25 The Collator..begins fairely and as a moderate pelagian, but, ere three pages are past..becomes flat Atheist. 1666Spurstowe Spir. Chym. (1668) 124 It is not devotion, saith Prosper, rightly against his Collator, to acknowledge almost all from God.
5. One who confers or bestows.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xv. 189 Like well plac'd benefits, they redound to the Collator's honour. 1854W. Waterworth Orig. Anglicanism 330 The collators of the instrument of grace.
6. Eccl. One who collates to a benefice.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 4 As Patrons, Prelates, beeing the collaters and instituters to benefices. 1679Burnet Hist. Ref. an. 1516 (R.) Only one benefice might be reserved from a collator of ten. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) II. 215 The pope might prevent the ordinary collator upon a vacancy. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. III. 2108 All prelates, patrons, and ordinary collators of benefices.
7. A punched-card machine which merges two sets of cards, or selects matching cards.
1949E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 51 The collator is a machine that arranges or collates cards. 1953Electronic Engin. XXV. 407 Ancillary equipment for handling punched cards such as the..collator. 1964F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers vi. 100 A machine called a Collator can co-ordinate similar cards from two separate packs, and has many other applications. |