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duce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

One who quotes the words of another.

To quote constantly or with great frequency.

Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.

To quote erroneously or incorrectly. Shak.

Named or quoted before.

To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. [Archaic]

An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.

passage 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.

To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Shak.

parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning. According to all the light that the contexts afford. Sharp.

To quote. [Obs.] Udall.

sing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

action. (Mach.) See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse (Gram.), the language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;" -- correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They are often called respectively by their Latin names,…

To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.

To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. Swift. To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.

Cited or quoted before or above. Arbuthnot.

eir silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection.

application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief. Wharton.

, of a dream, or of an enigma. Look how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our looks. Shak.