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quotation|kwəʊˈteɪʃən|
Also 6–8 cotation.
[ad. med.L. quotātiōn-em, n. of action f. quotāre to quote. Cf. obs. F. quotation (Godef.).]
†1. A numbering, number. Obs. rare—1.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 100 Here efter followis the chapitris of the ferde buke efter the quotaciouns of the Rubricis.
†2.
a. A (marginal) reference to a passage in a book: see quote v. 2. Obs.
1532More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 776/1 His quotacion is in the mergent in this maner. De pene. dis. ii. Si in glossa. 1557N.T. (Genev.) To Rdr. **iii. Then is it noted with this starre *, as the cotations are. 1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. 793 Although the wordes in the texte be altered, yet the quotations in the margent remayne still. 1664H. More Apology 508 The Quotation of the place from whence this Objection is taken is here omitted, but I question not but that it aimes at that passage, Chap. 4. Sect. 3. Book 6. which runs thus [etc.]. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing 388 That the Compositer may..Justifie his Notes or Quotations exactly against the designed Line of the Page.
b. Typog. (ellipt. for quotation-quadrat.) A large (usually hollow) quadrat used for filling up blanks (orig. the blanks between marginal references).
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. 224 He Justifies his Stick-full just to the breadth of the Wooden Letter with Quadrats or Quotations. Ibid. 236 He sets..a row of Quotations almost down the length of the Page. 1771P. Luckombe Hist. Printing 287 Justifiers, as well for broad as narrow Quotations, are cast, from Double Pica to all the Regular Bodies. 1808C. Stower Printers' Gram. 97 Quotations are cast to two sizes, and are called broad and narrow... Quotations should not be cast so high as they sometimes are. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 109 Quotations, large quadrats, generally of four-line pica.
3. a. The action or practice of quoting.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 279 This Translation..is often followed..by our Saviour himselfe in the quotations of the Old Testament. 1765Museum Rust. IV. lxiii. 286 Nothing can be more unfair than false quotation. 1781Johnson in Boswell 8 May, Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig., Quotation confesses inferiority.
b. A passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. xvi. (1695) 383 He..cannot doubt how little Credit the Quotations deserve, where the Originals are wanting. 1711Steele Spect. No. 11 ⁋1 He..enforced his Arguments by Quotations out of Plays and Songs. 1771Junius Lett. xlvi. 245 After giving a false quotation from the journals..he proceeds. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. viii. 249 That prodigal erudition which delights in inexhaustible quotations from writers whom we now deem obscure. 1887Bowen Virgil Pref. (1889) 7 Hundreds of Virgil's lines are for most of us familiar quotations.
c. A short passage or tune taken from one piece of music to another or quoted elsewhere.
1906E. Newman Elgar v. 147 The clarinet softly gives out a quotation..from Mendelssohn's ‘Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage’ overture. 1942G. Abraham Beethoven's Second-Period Quartets 42 A note-for-note quotation of a figure much used in the first movement of Mozart's great Quartet in C major, K.465. 1960New Oxf. Hist. Music III. v. 156 The following quotation will..serve to show the extent to which the late Gothic composers intentionally subordinated the natural verbal rhythm to the rhythmic compulsion of the music. 1972Jazz & Blues Oct. 26/3 Flashes of humour in the form of oblique quotations.
†4. A note or observation; a matter noted. Obs.
1608Middleton Family of Love v. iii, Your wife can furnish you with notes out of her cotations. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 51 It were not amisse to take into observation two notable quotations. The first was, a violent indulgencie of the Queen [etc.].
†5. Share, quota. Obs. rare—1.
1613J. Chamberlain MS. Let. to Sir D. Carleton (T.), That they should not be able to answer their quotations (as they call them), or payments to the general charge.
6. The amount stated as the price of stocks or any commodity for sale.
1812Examiner 21 Sept. 608/2 Sales..sustain the last quotation. 1861Goschen For. Exch. 56 To give any exact or definite quotation of the price of long-dated paper. 1883Pall Mall G. 7 Apr. 5/2 Manufacturers..are disposed rather to increase than to decrease their quotations.
7. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 3 b) quotation-capping (see cap v.1 5), quotation-monger; (sense 2 b) quotation-justifier, quotation-quadrat; quotation-marks, signs used in writing or printing to mark the beginning and end of a quotation; in English, single or double inverted commas (see comma 4) and apostrophes are employed.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. 236 Then he sets his Notes..and with Quotation Quadrats of proper Bodies, Justifies them up. 1750Student I. 284 The Author shews his skill and address as a quotation-monger. 1771P. Luckombe Hist. Printing 287 Quotation quadrats require to be dressed and finished as carefully as any other sort. 1885Pall Mall G. 11 Apr. 5/1 Characters who..indulge themselves in a little bout of quotation-capping. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 109 Quotation justifiers, spaces for justifying lines of quotations. 1897Century Mag. 563/1, I must put play in quotation-marks to express the sarcasm of it.
Hence quoˈtational a., of or pertaining to a quotation or quotations; quoˈtationally adv., by way of quotation, as a quotation; quoˈtationist, one who (habitually) makes quotations.
1643Milton Divorce To Parlt. Eng., Let the Statutes of God be..considered not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of Quotationists. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 443 The quotationist..never saw even the Parthian back of the lucky fugitive. 1862Sat. Rev. 13 Sept. 308 He then observed quotationally, ‘Men cannot determine [etc.]’. 1869Eadie Galatians 239 It is only a quotational illustration of the truth announced in the previous verse. 1878J. W. Ebsworth Introd. Brathwait's Strappado xv, The phrase..has the imperfect quotational marks before it. |