Collate

kol-at', v.t. (lit.) to bring or lay together for comparison to examine and compare, as books, and esp. old manuscripts to place in or confer a benefice to place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding. [L. collatus, pa p. of confero—con together, and Jero, to bring.] Collateral, kol-at'cr-al, adj side by side running parallel or together not direct descended from the same ancestor, but not directly, as the children of brothers —«. a collateral relation —adv. Collaterally. [L. col, and lat us, later is a side.]