(plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) [from 13th c.]
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries. [from 14th c.]
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. [from 14th c.]
(civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
