Search the Dictionary

A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. "Quota of troops and money." Motley.

Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence. -- Quot`a*bit"i*ty, n. Poe.

Quota; share. [Obs.]

One who makes, or is given to making, quotations. The narrow intellectuals of quotationists. Milton.

Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.

the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. The aptness of his quotations. J. R. Green.

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

Citation; quotation [R.] Johnson.

from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops. From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms. Milman.

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

o pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

A quotation mark. [R.]

to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation. Had I lavish of my presence been, So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. Shak.

not placed in a pile. [Now Low or Humorous] A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson.

Etym: [L.], a tabulated and alphabetized notebook, for systematic preservation of items, quotations, etc.

Supreme Being which are exhibited in nature; -- distinguished from revealed religion. See Quotation under Natural, a., 3. -- Natural vowel, the vowel sound heard in urn, furl, sir, her, etc.; -- so called as being uttered in the easiest open position of the mouth organs. See Neutral vowel, under Neutral and Guide to P…

brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.

e act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.