Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of citing to appear; a summons.
- noun Recital; mention.
- noun Quotation; citation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Summons to appear, as before a judge.
- noun rare Citation; quotation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
summons toappear , as before ajudge . - noun
citation ;quotation
Etymologies
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cite + -al
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Examples
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He brought the re - cital to a close, and the dancing came to a neat halt as if it had been planned exactly this way.
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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The plain account of the nature of an epic poem, is, the re - cital, of some illustrious enterprise in a poetical form* This is as exact a definition, as there is any occasion for on this subject.
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The an - ernor Beiiingham, with, probably, a re - ihof of a book entitled A Glass for cital of the occasion on which they the People of New England, "By S. arose, of which Winthrop gives a suf -
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