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   collation

   /kəˈleɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action of collating something: "data management and collation"
   • 2. a light informal meal: formal "lunch was a collation of salami, olives, and rye bread"
   • ▪ (in the Roman Catholic Church) a light meal allowed during a fast.

   Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin collatio(n-), from conferre (see confer). Originally (in the plural) the term denoted John Cassian's Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium ‘Conferences of, or with, the Egyptian Hermits’ (ad 415–20), from which a reading would be given in Benedictine communities prior to a light meal (see collation (sense 2)).

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • L

     1

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

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