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collative

American  
[kuh-ley-tiv, koh-, ko-, koh-ley-, kol-ey-] / kəˈleɪ tɪv, koʊ-, kɒ-, ˈkoʊ leɪ-, ˈkɒl eɪ- /

adjective

  1. marked by collation.

  2. Ecclesiastical. presented by collation.

    collative benefices.


collative British  
/ kɒˈleɪtɪv, ˈkɒlə- /

adjective

  1. involving collation

  2. (of benefices) presented or held by collation

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Etymology

Origin of collative

From the Latin word collātīvus, dating back to 1610–20. See collate, -ive

Example Sentences

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Advowsons are of three kinds—presentative, collative, and donative: presentative, when the patron presents his clerk to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted; collative, when the bishop is the patron, and institutes or collates his clerk by a single act; donative, when a church is founded by the king, or any person licensed by him, without being subject to the ordinary, so that the patron confers the benefice on his clerk without presentation, institution, or induction.

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The Misericordia takes care of the financial affairs of twenty-nine collative and of ten laical chaplaincies; and, in the royal college of San Joseph, of two fellowships.

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Besides the above that holy executive board is patron of twenty-nine collative and ten lay chaplaincies, and maintains two fellowships in the royal college of San José.

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Chaplaincies of this class are collative, thus being differentiated from those purely laical, in which the authority of the ordinary does not intervene.

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Therefore it seems that there was no collative or discursive knowledge in Christ.

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