quotation ist (kwotashonist)

[ + -ist.] One who makes quotations. Considered not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationists and common places. Milton , Divorce, To the Par lament. quotation-mark (kwō-tā'shon-märk), n . One of the marks used to note the beginning and the end of a quotation. In English, quotation-marks generally consist of two inverted commas at the beginning and two apostrophes at the end of a quotation; but a single comma and a single apostrophe are also used, especially in Great Britain. In the former case the marking of a quotation within a quotation is single; in the latter, properly double. Single quotation-marks are often used, as in this work, to mark a translation. Quotation marks for printing in French, German, etc., are types specially cut and cast for this use; and in some fonts for printing in English characters have been made for the beginning of quotations corresponding in reverse to the apostrophes at the end. quote (kwot), v.; pret, and pp. quoted, ppr. quoting. [Formerly also cote; A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame. Shak., K. John, iv. 2. 222. I am sorry that with better heed and judgement I had not quoted him. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 1. 112. Wherfore I was desirous to see it again, and to read it with more deliberation, and, being sent to me a second time, it was thus quoted in the margent as ye see. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 1110, an. 1543. of some speaker; name, repeat, or adduce as the utterance of some other person, or by way of authority or illustration; also, to cite the qy. Like the human body, with a quotidian life, a periodical recurrence of ebbing and flowing tides. Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 173. Duble quotidian fever. See fever1. II. n. 1. Something that returns or is ex whose paroxysms return every day. words of: as, to quote a pa age from Homer; pected every day; specifically, in med . , a fever to quote Shakspere or one of his plays; to quote chapter and verse. IMG:content-1524.png:[blocks in formation] As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. Emerson , Conduct of Life. 3. In writing or printing , to inclose within quotation-marks; distinguish as a quotation or as quoted matter by marking: as, the dialogue in old books is not quoted .-4. In com ., to name, as the price of stocks, produce, etc.; name the current price of. - Quoted matter, in printing , composed types that are inclosed by quotation-marks: thus, "". =Syn. 2. Quote , Cite, Adduce , Recite. When we quote or recite , we repeat the exact words; when we cite or ad duce , we may only refer to the pa age without quoting it, or we may give the substance of the pa age. We may quote a thing for the pleasure that we take in it or or for any other reason: as, to quote a saying of Izaak Walton's. We cite or adduce a thing in proof of some a ertion or doc trine: as, to cite an authority in court; to adduce confirmatory examples. Adduce, besides being broader in its use, is stronger than cite, as to urge in proof. Recite, in this connection, applies to the quoting of a pa age of some length: as, to recite a law; to recite the conversation of Lorenzo and Je ica at Belmont. It generally implies that the pa age is given orally from memory, but not nece arily, as a petition recites, etc.; the others may be freely used of that which is read aloud or only written. II. in trans . To cite the words of another; make a quotation.