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▪ I. † quote, n.1 Obs. rare.
Also 5 quoote, 6 cote; Sc. 6 quoitt, 6–7 quott, 7 coitt, 8 quot.
[a. OF. cote, quote quota.]
1. a. An aliquot part.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. 3 This noumbir eke of sex is praysed for his particuler noumberes, whech be on, too, thre; and these be cleped cote.
b. A quotient.
1676Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 9 By the second remainder divide the second divisor, reserve the quotes. 1694E. Halley in Phil. Trans. XVIII. 250 Divide the Minutes of the said first æquation and the Quote shall be the æquation of Num. II. 1767Murdoch ibid. LVIII. 26 The terms..must involve a common factor; by which being divided, the quote may be [etc.].
2. = quota 1.
1451Rolls Parlt. V. 222/1 Any part or parcell of any Dysmes, or other Quoote what so ever it be. 1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 5 §1 Quinzimes and dismes and other quotes taxes and tallages. 1619J. Sempill Sacrilege Handled 78 Paul..did not settle the Medium, nor name the Quote.
b. Sc. Law. ‘The portion of the goods of one deceased appointed by law to be paid for the confirmation of his testament, or for the right of intromitting with his property’ (Jamieson).
1526Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 306 The nerrest of þar kyne..sall have þar gudis, without preiudice to þe ordinaris anent þe cote of thar testamentis. 1666Acts Sederunt 28 Feb., Twelve pennies of every pound of the dead's part shall be the quote of all testaments..which shall be confirmed. [1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) iii. ix. §11.]
attrib.1564Acts Sederunt 13 Apr., The Queins writting of the 1600 lib. of the quoitt silver.
▪ II. quote, n.2|ˈkwəʊt|
[f. quote v.]
†1. A (marginal) reference; a note. Obs.
1600Tourneur Trans. Metamorph. Author to Book 2, O were Thy margents cliffes of itching lust, Or quotes to chalke out men the way to sin. 1611Cotgr., Quote, a quote, or quoting; a marke, or note vpon an article.
2. a. A quotation. Also quote mark = b.
1885Pall Mall G. 23 Jan. 6/1 The ‘interviewer’ (..has not the time come for leaving out the quote marks?) 1888Ibid. 12 Dec. 11/2 Stodgy ‘quotes’ from the ancients? 1922T. S. Eliot Let. ? Jan. in E. Pound Lett. (1951) 236 Do you mean not use the Conrad quote or simply not put Conrad's name to it? 1950G. B. Stern Ten Days of Christmas i. 27 The title must be a quote. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Jan. 45/4 The blurb..and ‘quotes’ selected from the American Press inaccurately suggest brashness. 1968Listener 25 July 108/2 Don't ask me questions, since I have no wish to figure as the father of all the quotes in your stories. 1978Guardian Weekly 15 Oct. 7/3 A quote from Dayan is painted on one of the twisted gun doors: ‘The Bar-Lev line looks like a piece of cheese with a hole in it.’
b. A quotation mark.
1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 109. 1891 Scot. Leader 2 Apr. 6 The portion of this quotation which we have put within quotes. 1895Nation (N.Y.) 14 Mar. 191 Lodge's ‘Americanism’..will get the ‘double quotes’ every time. 1920Wodehouse Coming of Bill i. ii. 24 Below the signature, in what printers call ‘quotes’, a line..‘Bear the torch and do not falter.’ 1937Daily Express 4 Feb. 6/3 New use for ‘quotes’ (‘inverted commas’) came to light at the Scottish Literary luncheon in London yesterday. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences iii. 90 The upper class fashion of speaking in ‘quotes’—‘I don't mind if I do’ (in a pronounced Cockney accent). 1969‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass ii. 24 He'd have witnesses if I put him in the dock. Witnesses in quotes, I mean. 1976New Yorker 16 Feb. 37/1 Freezes over close quote, paragraph.
3. = quotation 6.
1959Daily Mail 8 June 2/3 ‘Quotes’ for readers. The following list of prices is a selection from readers' requests for quotation of some of their shares which do not fluctuate sufficiently to be quoted daily. 1965E. Gundrey Foot in Door xii. 91 She was shown a long list of things that needed doing..and was given a quote for ‘about {pstlg}28’. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 4/4 The Duke price was consistently lower than other quotes. 1976J. Drummond Funeral Urn iv. 14 Do the work, will I?.. I'll give you a quote before I get stuck in. 1980Daily Tel. 3 Jan. 15/6 Yesterday..he was appointed chairman of construction company Tebbitt, which has a market value of {pstlg}1·3 million. ‘It is a small start, but I needed a vehicle with a quote and Tebbitt is exactly right.’
▪ III. quote, v.|kwəʊt|
Also 4–7 cote, 6 cott, quoate, 6–7 coat.
[ad. med.L. quotāre to mark the number of, distinguish by numbers, f. quot how many, or quota quota. Cf. F. coter, † cotter (15th c.), whence prob. the obs. forms cote, cott.]
I.
†1.
a. trans. To mark (a book) with numbers (as of chapters, etc.), or with (marginal) references to other passages or works. Obs. rare.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 205 Stevene þe archbisshop..coted [L. quotavit] þe Bible at Parys, and marked þe chapitres. 1570Foxe A. & M. 1394/2, I was desirous to see it agayne,..and beyng sent to me the second tyme, it was thus coted [1596 quoted] in y⊇ margent as ye see.
†b. To mark (with lines). Obs. rare—1.
F. coter is similarly used by Amyot, ‘cicatrisez et cottez de poinctes et picqueures’ (Godef. Compl.).
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. C ij, Thou faire frame, with azure lines thick quoted, Bright heauen.
†2.
a. To give the reference to (a passage in a book), by specifying the page, chapter, etc. where it is to be found. Obs.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. 800 They quote for that purpose in the margent the .10. of Matth. verse . 14 . 15. 1581J. Hamilton in Catholic Tract. (S.T.S.) 104 Quhy haue ye not cottit the places of your bybill, quhair out thaj ar drauin. 1638Featly Transubst. 46 If you have read..the passages which you cote out of Jewell. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 280 What needed he to quote any places to prove his doctrine?
fig.1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. 246 His faces owne margent did coate such Amazes.
†b. absol. To set down references; to refer to.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 270 He..desired few parentheses or digressions or gloses, but the text, where he him-self was coting [later eds. coating] in the margant. 1657F. Cockin Div. Blossomes 119 Another Book by the same Authour, to the which this Quotes, and would be of great use to go along with this.
3.
†a. To cite or refer to (a book, author, etc.) for a particular statement or passage. Obs.
b. To copy out or repeat a passage or passages from. Also, to repeat a statement by (someone); to give (a person's name) as the authority for a statement. Freq. in phr. don't quote me.
1589Pasquil's Ret. c, Mar...in other places he quoates Scripture. Pas. He coateth Scriptures indeed. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. M.'s Wks. 1738 I. 495 Pope Zachary..in a Letter of his to the French, which you your self quote. 1710Steele Tatler No. 197 ⁋6 He shall quote and recite one Author against another. 1781Wilkes in Boswell Johnson 8 May, Upon the continent they all quote the Vulgate Bible. Shakspeare is chiefly quoted here. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 391 One series..will be occasionally quoted in the course of this work. 1871Jowett Plato IV. 61 He still quotes the poets. 1953A. Christie Pocket Full of Rye ii. 12 Of course, I may be wrong—don't quote me, for Heaven's sake. 1965Word Study Apr. 6/2 We might happen to have such a quotation from Public Enemy No. 1, and we wouldn't hesitate to quote him. 1973Times 15 Feb. 18/5 They won't be here at all in three years time. And you can quote me on that too. 1976‘R. Macdonald’ Blue Hammer xviii. 150 ‘Who had reason to kill him?’ ‘I don't know. His wife, perhaps... Don't quote me, but I wouldn't put it past her.’
4. a. To copy out or repeat (a passage, statement, etc.) from a book, document, speech, etc., with some indication that one is giving the words of another (unless this would otherwise be known). Also transf., of a composer or musical composition: to reproduce or repeat (a passage or tune that forms part of another piece of music).
a1680Butler Upon Plagiaries 102 'Twas counted learning once..what men understood by rote, By as implicit sense to quote. 1712Addison Spect. No. 333 ⁋1, I omitted quoting these passages in my Observations on the former books. 1771Junius Lett. liv. 283 He quotes verses without mercy. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxvii. 378, I quote the following passage from this paper. 1878R. W. Dale Lect. Preach. v. 142 The rest of the sermon it is unnecessary to quote. 1946E. Blom Everyman's Dict. Mus. 138/1 Dies irae. The 2nd section of the Requiem Mass, orig[inally] assoc[iated] with a distinct plainsong theme which has been frequently used or quoted by var[ious] comp[oser]s. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) II. 955/1 Var. XIII [of the ‘Enigma Variations’] quotes from Mendelssohn's ‘Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage’ Overture. 1975R. S. Gold Jazz Talk 213 Quote,..of a vocalist or soloing instrumentalist to insert a phrase from another tune into the one being played.
b. absol. To make quotations (from a book, author, etc.).
1787Burns Extempore in Crt. Session, He clench'd his pamphlets..He quoted and he hinted. 1827Lytton Pelham xiv, [He] had a peculiar art of quoting from each author he reviewed. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §5. 142 He..quotes largely from state documents,..and exchequer rolls.
c. quote..unquote: a formula used in dictation to introduce and terminate a quotation. Freq. transf., in speech or writing, introducing and terminating words quoted (or ironically imagined to be quoted) from the speech or writing of another.
1935E. E. Cummings Let. 3 Oct. (1969) 145 The Isful ubiquitous wasless&-shallbeless quote scrotumtightening unquote omnivorously eternal thalassa pelagas or Ocean. 1950‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley xvii. 198 She says, quote, ‘What girl wouldn't?’ unquote. 1956Times 5 Dec. 1/5 (Advt.), Today, America, you sure are quote in the Big Time unquote. 1958B. Hamilton Too Much of Water xi. 245 But he did have, quote, a jolly good reason for bumping off one special person, unquote. 1961P. Ustinov Loser viii. 140 He expressed the personal opinion that the picture was quote great for America unquote. 1973D. Robinson Rotten with Honour 8 The British{ddd}see too many people like you in London... East Germans, Bulgarians, and Rumanians, all of them quote diplomats unquote.
II.
†5.
a. To write down; to make a note or record of, set down, mention in writing. Obs.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 9 New lessons then I noted, and some of them I coted. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 76 Her browes are pretie tables of conceate, Where Love his records of delight doth quoate. 1612Webster White Devil Wks. (Rtldg.) 27/2 It is reported you possess a book Wherein you have quoted by intelligence The names of all offenders. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 34 It is already quoted, they were such as awakened her spirits.
fig.1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 222 A fellow by the hand of Nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd to do a deede of shame. 1599Middleton Micro-cynicon iii, Fine madam Tiptoes..That quotes her paces in characters down.
†b. To take mental note of; to notice, observe, mark, scrutinize. Obs.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. i. 50 Note how she quotes the leaues. 1592― Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 31 What care I What curious eye doth quote deformities. 1607Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iii, I'll quote him to a tittle, let him speak wisely, and plainly,..or I shall crush him. 1640Gent Knave in Gr. i. i. B iij, My knowledge coated, and all Italy spoke of a Damosell called Cornelia.
absol.1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 137 Who minds to cote, vpon this note, may easily find ynough. 1605B. Jonson Volpone ii. i, To obserue, To quote, to learne the language, and so forth.
†c. To mention in speaking. Obs. rare—1.
1612Pasquil's Night-Cap (1877) 23 Here could I cote a rabble of those wiues, That you would wonder but to heare them nam'd.
6.
†a. To regard, look on, take as something; to note, set down (a person or thing) for something; to speak of, mention, bring forward for having done something. Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 87 Her Amber haires for foule hath amber coted. Ibid. v. ii. 796 Our letters..shew'd much more then Iest... Rosa. We did not coat them so. 1601― All's Well v. iii. 205 He's quoted for a most perfidious slaue. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 42 They quote him for a person that loved to stand too much alone. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xxxiii, Dr. Robert Wood..hath not been by any Author..so much as quoted for his illuminating us. 1722De Foe Relig. Courtsh. i. ii. (1840) 61 We can't quote our fathers for anything that is fit to be named.
b. To bring forward, adduce, allege, cite as an instance of or as being something.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) I. Introd., As I will evidence in a few instances already quoted. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. i. §6 (1864) 77 No impression from without can be quoted as originating this contraction. 1858W. Porter Knts. Malta 277 This has, in more than one case, been quoted as an excuse. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vii. 173 Few instances of concentrated disdain could be quoted as more pungent.
7. To state the price of (a commodity). Also, to name a racehorse at specified odds. absol. or with a person as obj., to give (someone) a quotation for goods or services.
1865Atlantic Monthly May 575/1 The artist is like the stock which is to be quoted at the board and thrown upon the market. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xx. 493 There are entries of shingle-nails, though no shingles are quoted. 1884Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 7 The Leeds securities had been quoted, and to a large amount sold, upon the..exchanges. 1888Economist (Chicago) 3 Nov. 4/3 The effect of quoting Gas Trust upon the ticker..has been to stimulate trade in this stock here. 1934Collier's 11 Aug. 48/2 Black Gold was quoted at 200 to 1 for the Coffroth event. 1938Times 29 Sept. 19/1 War Loan..was being quoted 95 middle in inter-office dealings. 1971Timber Trades Jrnl. 14 Aug. 71 (Advt.), Your machines..reconditioned, re-installed... Let us quote you.
Hence ˈquoted ppl. a. quoˈtee, one who is quoted. ˈquoteless a., ‘that cannot be quoted’ (Wright). ˈquoteworthy a., worthy of being quoted. ˈquoting vbl. n. ˈquotingly adv.
1608Middleton Mad World i. ii, Let him find Some book lie open..And *coted scripture. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 4 The perusal of quoted as well as original matter. 1861Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 600 The quoted prices merely tell us that buyers or sellers..are on the increase.
1813W. S. Walker Let. to Sir Walter Scott in N. & Q. (1961) Jan. 19/2 You see I am addicted to comparisons, like your *quotee Fluellen. 1821Examiner 461/1 Quotations of us between inverted commas without naming the quotee. 1926Eng. Jrnl. May 395 The quotee protests. Professor Baker has asked that attention be called to a quotation by Professor Campbell..which he feels does not present his meaning fairly. 1973Publishers Weekly 7 May 19/2 Ruland was not a manufactured quotee.
1870F. Jacox Rec. Recluse II. xii. 241 [His] description..is curious, and (to coin a phrase) *quoteworthy.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 320, I see thou art come..from *coting of ye Scriptures to courting with Ladies. 1714J. Fortescue-Aland Pref. Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. 56 Like quoting of Dacier, for a Verse in Horace.
1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispatch't Post-scr., Their old method of talking preachingly, *quotingly and quibblingly.
▪ IV. quote
variant of quot n., whoot v. |