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QUOTE.
author, etc.).
1787 BUHNS Extempore in Crt. Session, He clench'd his
pamphlets . . He quoted and he hinted. 18*7 LYTTON Pelham
xiv, [He] had a peculiar art of quoting from each author he
reviewed. 1874 GREEN Short Hist. hi. 5. 142 He. .quotes
largely from state documents,, .and exchequer rolls.
II. t 5. To write down ; to make a note or
record of, set down, mention in writing. Obs.
1573 TUSSER Husb. (1878)9 New lessons then I noted, and
some of them I coted. 1589 GREENE Menaphon (Arb.) 76
Her browes are pretie tables of conceate, Wliere Love his
79
0. 3 pi. quoUen ; 4 quop, cojje, ooth, cuth, 4quoth,
(6 qwoth).
CI250 Gen. ty Ex. 2093 QuoSen So wiches clerkes 'Sis
QUOTIDIAN.
fb. To mark (witk lines). Obs. rare~\
F. cater is similarly used by Amyot, '
cicatrisez et cottez
'
de et
poinctes picqueures (Godef. Compl.}.
1601 WEEVER Rlirr. Mart. C ij, Thou faire frame, with
azure lines thick quoted, Bright heauen.
f2. To give the reference to (a passage in a
book), by specifying the page, chapter, etc. -where
it is to be found. Obs.
1574 WHITCIFT Def. Aitnsw, 800 They quote for that purpose
in the margent the .10. of Matth. verse . 14. 15. 1581
J. HAMILTON in Catlwlic Tract. (S._T.
S.) 104 Quhy haue
ye not cottit the places of your bybill, quhair out thaj ar
drauin. 1638 FEATLY Transubst. 46 If you have read.,
the passages which you cote out of Jewell. 1651 HOBBES
Leviath. in. xlii. 280 What needed he to quote any places
to prove his doctrine?
fig. 1588 SHAKS. L. L. L. n. 246 His faces owne margent
did coate such Amazes.
t b. absol. To set down references to refer to.
;
1580 LYLY Enpkiies (Arb.)27o He. .desired few parentheses
or digressions or gloses, but the text, where he him-se!f was
coting [later eds. coating] in the margant. 1657 F. 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.
8. f 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.
1589 Pasquits Ret. c, Mar. . . in other places he quoates
Scripture. Pas. He coateth Scriptures indeed. 1693
WASHINGTON 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. 17x0 STEELE Tatler No. 197 F 6 He shall
quote and recite one Author against another. 1781 WILKES
in Boswell Johnson 8 May, Upon the continent they all
quote the Vulgate Bible. Shakspeare is chiefly quoted here.
1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. iii. L 391 One series .. will be
occasionally quoted in the course of this work. 1871 JOWETT
Plato IV. 61 He still quotes the poets.
4. 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).
a 1680 BUTLER Upon Plagiaries 102 'Twas counted learning
once, .what men understood by rote, By as implicit
sense to
quote. 1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 333 r i, I omitted quoting
these oassages in my Observations on the former books.
1771 Junius Lett. liv. 283 He quotes verses without mercy.
1860 TYNDAM. Glac, 11. xxvii. 378, I quote the following
passage from this 7. To state the price of (a commodity).
1866 ROGERS Agric. ff Prices I. xx. 493 There are entries
of shingle-nails, though no shingles are quoted. 1884 Law
Rep. 9 App.
paper. R. W. DALE Led. Preach.
187^8
v. 142 The rest of the sermon it is unnecessary to quote.
b. absol. To make quotations (from a book,
Cases 7 The Leeds securities had been quoted,
and to a large amount sold, upon the.. exchanges.
Hence Quoted ///. a. Quotee-, one who is
quoted. Quo'teless a., 'that cannot be quoted'
(Wright). Quo-teworthy a., worthy of being
quoted. Quo ting- vbl. sb. Quo-tiugly adv.
1608 MIDDLE-TON Mad World i. ii, Let him find Some
book lie open . . And *coted scripture. 1858 J. 13. NORTON
Topics 4 Tne perusal of quoted as well as original matter.
1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 600 The quoted prices merely tell us
that buyers or sellers .. are on the increase. 1821 Examiner
461/1 Quotations of us between inverted commas without
naming the *quotee. 1870 F. JACOX Rec. Recluse II. xii.
241 [His] description .. is curious, and (to coin a phrase)
"quoteworthy. 1580 LYLY Euphues (Arb.) 320, I see thou
art come.. from *coting of ye Scriptures to courting with
Ladies. 1714 FORTESCUE-ALAND Pref. Fortescue's Abs.fy
Lim.Mon.*f> Like quoting of Dacier,fora Verse in Horace.
1657 J. SERGEANT Schism Dispatck't Post-scr., Their old
method of talking preachingly, "quotingly and quibbling! y.
Quote, variant of QUOT sb., WHOOT v.
Quote'nnial, a. rare- 1 ,
[f. L. quotannis,
after biennial, etc. cf. ; QUOTANNAL.] Yearly.
1878 SIMPSON Sell. Shots. I. 60 Hugh Stucley was in this
state of quotennial warfare with his cousin.
Quoter (kwan-taa). [f. QUOTE v. + -EH 1.] One
who quotes.
1589 Pasjuifs Ret. Biij, They are great quoters of
common places. 1674 BOYLE Excell. Theol. IL v. 194 Small
Tracts, . . being preserv'd in such a quoter or abridger.
a 1731 ATTERBURY (I.), I propose this passage entire, to take
off the disguise which its quoter put upon it 1846 LANDOR
Imaf. Comi. Wks. II. 26 A quoter is either ostentatious of
his acquirements or doubtful of his cause. 1875 EMERSON
Lett. , Sac. Aims, Quot. 4 Orif., Next to the originator of
a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Quoth (kw0ub), v. (j>a. t.) Now arch, or dial.
[Pa. t. of QUETHK v. to say.] Said.
1. Used with sbs., or pronouns of the first and
third persons,
to indicate that the words ofa speaker
are being repeated.
The vb. is always placed before the subject, and the
clause is commonly inserted parenthetically towards the
beginning of the words quoted, but may also precede or
follow the whole sentence or speech.
a. 3 owafl, 3-4 qua*, quad, (3 quat, hwat),
3-5 quap ; 3 //. quepen. '
c 1200 Vices .J Virtues 67 Hlauerd,' cwaS he, '
hwat mai
1
ic don [etc.]. ciaso Gen. # Exod. 1313 Quat abraham,
'
god sal bi-sen [etc.].' Ibid. 3331 Quad moyses, ' loc ! her
nu bread.' c 1*90 S. Eng. Leg. 432/41 ' ' Leoue Moder,'
. _ A .. j__... 1. : '
stowe) as much as my sleeve ! 1583 STUBBES Anat. Abtts.
II. (1882) 12 Rich, quoth you? They are rich indeede
toward the deuill and the world, a 1600 Grittt, the Collier
of Crpydon
T? 7? /-o*:_\
n. iv. (1662) 30 As it falls t quoth ye, marry a
foul fall is it. 1681 T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 5
(1713) I. 28 Earn .. And what Trade do they intend to
drive? Jest. What Trade, quothee?
^[ Hence (erroneously) Quo-thing, saying.
1864 SIR F. PALGRAVE Norm, fy Eng. III. 402 The owner
had the power of transmitting the possession to an heir by
bequest, by quothing or speaking forth the name of his intended
successor to the lord.
Quotha (kwei preien, bat is . .
comunly for offrynge & cotidian distribucion. 1406 Hoc-
CLEVE La Male Regie 25 My grief and bisy sraert cotidian.
1432-50 tr. Higden (Rolls)_ V. 307 He made the preface
juotidian. 1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 274 b/2 [A] cotidyan
fornays is oure tonge humayne. 15x3 BRADSHAW St.
Werburge I. xx. 5 Ihe cotydyane labours her body to
records of delight doth quoate. 1612 WEBSTER White Devil
Wks. (Rtldg.) 27/2 It is
reported you possess a book Wherein
you have quoted by intelligence The names of all offenders.
a 1635 N AUNTON Fragni. Reg. (Arb.) It is 54 already quoted,
they were such as awakened her spirits.
fig' f595 SHAKS. John iv. ii. 222 A fellow by the hand of
Nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd to do a deede of shame.
1599 MIODLETOK Micro-cynicon in, Fine madam Tiptoes..
That quotes her paces in characters down.
fb. To take mental note of; to notice, observe,
mark, scrutinize. Obs.
1588 SHAKS. Tit. A. iv. i. 50 Note how she quotes the
leaues. 1592 Rom. fy Jul. \. iv, 31 What care I What
curious eye doth quote deformities, 1607 BEAUMONT Woman
Hater in. iii, I'll quote him to a tittle, let him speak
wisely, and plainly, . . or I shall crush him. 1640 GENT
Knai>e in Gr. i. i. Biij, My knowledge coated, and all Italy
spoke of a Damosell called Cornelia.
absol. 1573 TUSSER Hnso. (1878) 137 Who minds to cote,
vpon this note, may easily find ynough. 1605 B. JONSON
Volpone n. i, To obserue, To quote, to learne the language,
and so forth.
t c. To mention in speaking. Obs. rare"~l ,
161* PasquiPs Night-Cog (1877) 23 Here could I cote
a rabble of those wmes, That you would wonder but to
heare them nam'd.
6. fa. 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.
1588 SHAKS. L. L. L. iv. iii. 87 Her Amber haires forfoule
hath amber coted. Ibid. v. ii. 796 Our letters ..shew'd
much more then lest. . . Rosa. We did not coat them so.
1601 Airs Well v. iiL 205 He's quoted for a most perfidious
slaue. a i63$NAUNTON Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 42 They
quote him for a person that loved to stand top much alone.
1691 T. H[ALE] Ace. New Invent, p. xxxiii, Dr. Robert
Wood .. hath not been by any Author.. so much as quoted
for his illuminating us. 17*2 DE FOE Relig. Courtsh. \. 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.
1806-7 J- HERESFORD Miseries Hum. Life (1826) I. Introd,
As I will evidence in a few instances already quoted. 1855
BAIN Senses $ Int. n. i. 6
(186^) 77 No impression from
without can be quoted as originating this contraction. 1858
W. PORTER Knts. Malta 277 This has, in more than one
case, been quoted as an excuse. 1863 COWDEN CLARKE
Skaks. Char. vii. 173 Few instances of concentrated disdain
could be quoted as more fortoken godes gastes
pungent.
is/ a 1300 Cursor M. 7575 (Cott.),
lou es, coth golias, hot ded. . . 13 Caw. f, Gr. Knt. 776
'Now bone hostel' cobe be burne. 1508 PUNBAR Tua.
tnariit viemen 161 To speik, quoth scho, I sail nought
spar. 1581 NOWELL & DAY in Confer, i. (1583) Eiiijb,
The fyre (quoth wee) hathe heate and lyght. 1655 FULLER
Ch. Hist. in. vii. 6 No, Quoth the King, I will not be
'
both party and iudg. c 1705 POPE Jan. f, May 222 I say,'
quoth he, '
by heav'n the man's to blame.' 1783 COWPER
John Gilpin 25 Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, '
That's well said '.
'
1829 HOOD Eug.Aram xiii, And well '
quoth he, '
I know
for truth.' 1838 LYTTON Alia 146 'I know no man I
respect more than Maltravers,' quoth the admiral. 1884
BROWNING Ferishtah's Fancies, Mihrab Shah i Quoth an
inquirer, '
'
Praise the Merciful !
-y. 4 quot, cod, 4-7 quod (the prevailing form
quocl Wallace, quna lera met 1 j-ju^i^t:> si^nci*
5?J
vill. Prol. 122 Quod I, Lovne, thou leis. 1549 COVERDALE
etc. nw. Par. i Tim. 2, I haue not chosen (quod he) out
of an other mannes flocke. ct6*o A. HUME Brit. Tongue
(1865) 18 Be quhat reason ? quod the Doctour.
5. 5 quo, 6 ko, ka, 8 5