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† acˈcite, v. Obs.
6–7, also 6 acite, acyte, assite.
[ad. late L. accītāre, f. ac- = ad- to + cīt-āre to summon; see cite. The earlier forms seem to represent an OFr. derivative *aciter (not in Godef.).]
1. To summon, to call, to cite.
1506W. de Worde Ordinary of Crysten Men iv. xxix. [328] We be now acyted for to appere unto suche and soo meruayllous Iugement. 1524S. Fish Suppl. for Beggers 3 Howe muche money get the somners..by assityng the people to the commissaryes court, and afterward releasing thapparaunce for money? 1600Chapman Iliad xi. 595 Our heralds now accited all that were Endamag'd by the Elians. 1674Milton Declaration etc. Wks. 1851, 465 His most noble Uncle Stanislaus..whom..Valour and youthful Heat accited at his own expence and private forces into the Tauric fields.
2. To cite (in writing), to quote.
a1631Donne Ess. (1651) 23 And Beasts who have often the honour to be our Reproach, accited for examples of vertue & wisdome in the Scriptures.
3. To arouse, to excite (with which word it was probably sometimes confounded).
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 64 And what accites your most worshipful thought to thinke so? a1637B. Jonson Underwoods (1692) 563 What was there to accite So ravenous and vast an Appetite? |