COLLATION is also used among the Romanists for the meal or repast made in a fast day, in lieu of a supper. Only fruits are allowed in a collation: F. Lobin. COLLECTION is also popularly used for a repast between meals, particularly between dinner and supper. The word collation, in this sense, Du Cange derives from collatio, "conference," and maintains, that originally collation was only a conference, or conversation on subjects of piety, held on fast days in monasteries; but that, by degrees, the custom was introduced of bringing in a few refreshments; and that by the excesses to which those sober repasts were at length carried, the name of the abuse was retained, but that of the thing lost.

COLLECTION of Seals, denotes one seal set on the same label, on the reverse of another.