单词 | citatory |
释义 | citatoryadj. 1. Chiefly Law. Esp. of a document: having the function of citing or summoning someone; relating to or concerned with this action. Esp. in letters citatory (also citatory letters). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > summoning citatory1465 callingc1475 citatorial1529 summoning1628 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 1465 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 203 (MED) I, Willyam Barton, messynger and mandatary of our said haly fadre, by th'auctority of the forsaid lettrez citatory..openly protest by thes presentz. 1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr I. Oldecastell f. 14v He commaunded letters cytatorye to be set vpon the great gates of the cathedrall churche of Rochestre..chargynge him to apere personallye before him. 1618 J. Hales Let. 15 Dec. 35 in Golden Remains (1659) They were call'd thither by their citatory Letters to propose and defend their own opinions. 1676 G. Carew Fraud & Oppress. Detected & Arraigned 8 The said Hester, as next Heir to the said Iohn Moncy, had obtained a Mandement and Citatory decree. 1749 J. Edwards Substance of two Actions & Proc. in Univ. Court of Oxf. 17 A Citatory Decree of the Judge in Writing. 1848 J. H. Tillett Church in Fetters 9 On receiving the congé d'élire, the dean and chapter issue citatory letters to every person having any right or interest in the election. 1877 Amer. Law Reg. 25 504 If the defendant was present in the foreign state when proceedings were begun and process was served upon him, no irregularity in such service, unless such as deprived it of all citatory effect, can be set up against the judgment ensuing thereon. 1939 Times 23 Sept. 9/5 The Dean's virger..produced the original citatory mandate. 1996 R. B. Dobson Church & Society Medieval North of Eng. v. 123 Master John de Cerretanis delivered to the Durham proctors a series of letters compulsory, citatory and inhibitory. 2. Relating to, of the nature of, or characterized by quotation or citation. ΚΠ 1807 Anti-Jacobin May 24 We cannot entirely approve either of the author's catechetical or of his citatory account of water. 1819 Monthly Rev. 89 357 His style is elegant, though citatory. 1889 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 10 375 These stiff and pattern-like passages..cannot be charged to him, but to the later Alexandrine grammarians whose citatory style they agree with. 1903 T. A. Emmet Irel. under Eng. Rule I. iv. 81 The quotation given follows a citatory collection from every source of all the crimes which were charged against the Irish. 1936 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Mar. (Suppl.) 111/1 The draft document..had been carefully written so as not to deflect attention from those three publications—it was mainly citatory in character. 1972 Shaw Rev. 15 117 The 131-space line includes only 17 spaces..for citatory data. 1997 New Eng. Rev. 18 78 Their widely used ‘citatory’ style of preaching. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1465 |
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