单词 | cital |
释义 | † citaln. Obsolete. The action or an act of citing someone or something (in various senses of the verb); citation.Quot. 1598 has been variously interpreted; possible meanings include ‘an act of recounting, an account, a description’ and ‘the action of calling to account, reproaching, reproof’. Cf. also recital n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > summons citationc1325 summonancec1410 process1423 summons1429 summonitionc1455 venire facias1463 letters citatory1465 summonda1500 interpellation1579 butterfly1583 exploit1622 monition1649 cital1760 venire1763 exaction1816 assignation1884 blister1903 bluey1909 blue1939 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > summons citationc1325 cital1760 citing1787 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. ii. 61 He made a blushing citall of himselfe, And chid his truant youth. View more context for this quotation 1652 S. Rowles Short Confession of Faith 39 in D. Carwardine Briefe Disc. Broken Heart A citall of soule and body to appeare before God at the day of the great Assize. 1760 Life & Adventures of Cat 41 It was carried regularly through the forms of cital. 1852 J. Taaffe Hist. Order St. John I. i. iii. 165 Any difficulties were quickly overcome by the cital of Godfrey, whose very name had a sanctified authority inappealable. 1879 E. B. Bax J. P. Marat ix. 92 A section..demanding the cital of the members composing the Commission before the Revolutionary tribunal. 1920 J. Hebblethwaite Poems 120 O then came Unto the dreamer cital of old woes And forlorn burdens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1598 |
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