recollationn.
/ˌriːkəˈleɪʃn/, /ˌriːkɒˈleɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌrikəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of recollating pages, a text, a book, etc.; an instance of this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison of texts > [noun] > again
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1766 B. Kennicott State Coll. Hebrew MSS Old Test. at End Sixth Year I have therefore requested, that these MSS may be more fairly and fully represented to the Public, by an entire re-collation of them at my expence.
1787 J. Whitaker Mary Queen of Scots Vindicated I. iii. 97 With such effrontery of falsehood in this privy council,..what fairness can be expected in the re-collation of the letters?
1816 2nd Rep. Comm. Public Rec. App. ⁋ i The many Omissions discovered on Re-collation.
1881 Academy 19 Feb. 139/2 The MS...has been missing..since June last, so that recollation is for the present impracticable.
1983 National Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 Sept. 14 A manual ‘recollation’ process assembles each document into the proper number and sequence of pages after all the printing stops.
1994 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 54 60 A recollation was ordered the same year,..to be conducted by new personnel with broader knowledge of the canon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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