QUOTE

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

2.
v.

To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.

3.
v.

To name the current price of.

4.
v.

To notice; to observe; to examine. [Obs.] Shak.

5.
v.

To set down, as in writing. [Obs.] "He's quoted for a most perfidious slave." Shak.

6.
n.

A note upon an author. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

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