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collative

American  
[kuh-lay-tiv, koh-, ko-, koh-lay-, kol-ay-] / 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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of collative

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


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I answer that, Knowledge may be discursive or collative in two ways.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

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.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

Advowsons are further distinguished into presentative and collative.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

And in this way the knowledge in Christ's soul was not discursive or collative, since this knowledge which we are now considering was divinely infused, and not acquired by a process of reasoning.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Therefore there was collative and discursive knowledge in Christ.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

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