Dictionary: QUOTE – QUO-WAR'RAN-TO

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QUOTE, v.t. [Fr. quoter, now coter; connected with quoth.]

  1. To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat or adduce a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer; to quote the words of Peter, or a passage of Paul's writings; to quote chapter and verse. Atterbury. Swift.
  2. In commerce, to name, as the price of an article.
  3. To note. Shak.

QUOT-ED, pp.

Cited; adduced; named.

QUOTE-LESS, a.

That can not be quoted.

QUOT-ER, n.

One that cites the words of an author or speaker.

QUOTH, v.i. [Sax. cwythan, cythan, Goth. quithan, to say, to tell; W. gwed, gwedyd; Ir. ceadach. Qu. L. inquio, contracted.]

. To say; to speak. This verb is defective, being used only in the first and third persons in the present and past tenses; as, quoth I, quoth he, and the nominative always follows the verb. It is used only in ludicrous language, and has no variation for person, number or tense.

QUO-TID'I-AN, a. [L. quotidianus; quotus and dies.]

Daily; occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.

QUO-TID'I-AN, n.

  1. A fever whose paroxysms return every day.
  2. Any thing returning daily. Milton.

QUO'TIENT, n. [Fr. from L. quoties, how often.]

In arithmetic, the number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater. Thus 3)12(4. Here 4 is the quotient, showing that 3 is contained 4 times in 12. Or quotient is an expression denoting a certain part of a unit; as 3/4.

QUOT-ING, ppr.

Citing; adducing; naming.

QUO-WAR'RAN-TO,

in Law Latin, a writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or corporation exercises certain powers. Blackstone.