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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Conferring or bestowing.
  • Collating.
  • Eccles., presented by collation: applied to advowsons or livings of which the bishop and patron are the same person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective In which the ordinary (or bishop) is the same person as the patron.

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