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A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

shamelessness; effrontery. This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations. Tillotson.

a total failure in a recitation. [U.S.]

Excitation; instigation; encouragement. Dishonest fomentation of your pride. Young.

doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow.

The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.

Importunity; solicitation. [Obs.] At our importance hither is he come. Shak.

s; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. [Obs.] And their importune fates all satisfied. Spenser. Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual. Bacon.

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.

Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn. -- In`com*pli"ant*ly, adv.

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott.

A official summons or citation. Ayliffe.

The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.

the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

utilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation. To mangle a play or a novel. Swift.

ho, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.

Any of various malt liquors (see Citation).

as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition, etc. Counter citations that neutralize each other. E. Everett.

The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, or citation, etc.