quotationn.
/kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkwoʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > assigning numbers to things
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c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 100 Here efter followis the chapitris of the ferde buke efter the quotaciouns [2005 ed. reads connotaciouns] of the Rubricis.
2. † a. A reference (usually in a margin) to a passage of text by page, chapter, etc. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > reference or cross-reference
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1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 776/1 His quotacion is in the mergent in this maner. De pene. dis. ii. Si in glossa.
1557 New Test. (Geneva) To Rdr. **iii. Then is it noted with this starre *, as the cotations are.
1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 793 Although the wordes in the texte be altered, yet the quotations in the margent remayne still.
1664 H. More Apol. 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.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 388 That the Compositer may..Justifie his Notes or Quotations exactly against the designed Line of the Page.
b. Typography. More fully quotation quadrat. A large (usually hollow) quadrat used for filling blanks in letterpress printing. Now historical.
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material
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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 224 He Justifies his Stick-full just to the breadth of the Wooden Letter with Quadrats or Quotations.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 236 Then he sets his Notes..and with Quotation Quadrats of proper Bodies, Justifies them up.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 287 Quotation quadrats require to be dressed and finished as carefully as any other Sort.
1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 97 Quotations are cast to two sizes, and are called broad and narrow.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 109 Quotations, large quadrats, generally of four-line pica.
1951 S. Jennett Making of Bks. 43 Very large quads, used for filling up large areas of space, are termed quotations.
1989 P. H. Collin Dict. Printing & Publishing 192/2 Quotation, special long hollow metal strips, used to fill in blanks in the typeset text.
2001 W. W. E. Slights Managing Readers ii. 61 The quotation quadrats used by London printers were standardized blanks..that defined the width of the space available for shoulder notes.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [noun] > instance of
quotation1592
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remark1628
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. 30 Then to read that profound Quotation, Hei mihi, quam paucos hæc mea dicta mouent? Which was thought Patheticall out of crie.
1601 J. Paget Primer of Christian Relig. sig. 122v This worke of God [sc. the Camomil] is a quotation alleadged by him, to teach vs.
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) v. sig. H3 Your wife can furnish you with notes out of her Cotations.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. E4 It will not be amisse to take into observation, two noteable Quotations: the first was a violent indulgence of the Queenes [etc.].
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > a contribution
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1613 J. Chamberlain Let. 13 May (1939) I. 454 That they shold not be able to aunswer theyre quotations (as they call them) or payments to the generall charges.
5.
a. A passage quoted from a book, speech, or other source; (in modern use esp.) a frequently quoted passage of this nature. Cf. citation n. 2b.to cap a quotation: see cap v.1 5.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > documentary evidence > [noun] > passage quoted
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cite1941
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > practice of citing or quoting > that which is quoted
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1618 N. Byfield Paterne Wholesome Wordes iv. 25 That there is a God, is euery where apparant in euery leafe, yea almost in euery line of Scripture; and therefore I spare quotations, it being out of all doubt, that the Scripture saith so.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xvi. 338 He..cannot doubt how little Credit the Quotations deserve, where the Originals are wanting.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 11. ⁋1 He..enforced his Arguments by Quotations out of Plays and Songs.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlvi. 170 After giving a false quotation from the journals..he proceeds.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 249 That prodigal erudition which delights in inexhaustible quotations from writers whom we now deem obscure.
1887 C. Bowen in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse Pref. 7 Hundreds of Virgil's lines are for most of us familiar quotations.
1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 85/1 The orthodox use..is transitive, & the OED gives no quotation showing with.
1962 S. Raven Close of Play i. iii. 38 ‘Sui memores..alios fecere merendo... It is a quotation’, said Hugo, ‘familiar to all men of even moderate education.’
2005 Oxf. Amer. Fall 72/1 I planned to sprinkle the magic book liberally with quotations from Faulkner.
b. A short musical passage or visual image taken from one piece of music or work of art and used in another.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > quotation
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1890 Times 9 May 10/2 The representation of the bridal ceremony..reaches the extreme limits of what is permissible in instrumental music, but the quotation from a psalm of Marcello's is well introduced.
1938 Jrnl. Warburg Inst. 2 185/1 This self-portrait of Reynolds might be another case of a ‘witty quotation’: a translation from a painting of Greuze.
1942 G. 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.
1972 Jazz & Blues Oct. 26/3 Flashes of humour in the form of oblique quotations.
1994 K. Moxey Pract. Theory v. 96 A quotation of a painting..by..Michelangelo Caravaggio.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Oct. b27/4 There are so many film quotations that, as handsomely rendered as they are by Tak Fujimoto's dexterous cinematography, [etc.].
6. The action or an act of quoting.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > documentary evidence > [noun] > use of
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > practice of citing or quoting
citation1538
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > fondness for quotations > art or practice of quoting
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 279 This Translation..is often followed..by our Saviour himselfe in the quotations of the Old Testament. View more context for this quotation
1678 T. Rawlins Tunbridge-Wells iv. i. 32 By the quiddity of my Knight-hood, I was as innocent of any intentional injury, or injurious intention, But con licenza, that figure must not laps quotation.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 lxiii. 286 Nothing can be more unfair than false quotation.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 390 Johnson: Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
1809 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 163/1 With his whole heavy artillery of argument and quotation.
1876 R. W. Emerson Quotation & Originality in Lett. & Social Aims 167 Quotation confesses inferiority.
1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xii. 258 A wicked facility in quotation tempted her to add ‘except in the Hesperides’.
1987 R. S. Brindle New Music (ed. 2) ix. 81 Except for the occasional quotation of prearranged musical ideas, players extemporize in a very free manner.
2006 NBC News Transcripts (Nexis) 26 Nov. Many Muslims were offended by Benedict's quotation of a Byzantine emperor who described Islam as evil.
7. An amount stated as the price of a stock or of any commodity for sale. Also: a contractor's stated price for a particular job.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > statement of price of commodities
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1812 Examiner 21 Sept. 608/2 Sales..sustain the last quotation.
1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 56 To give any exact or definite quotation of the price of long-dated paper.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Apr. 5/2 Manufacturers..are disposed rather to increase than to decrease their quotations.
1922 T. S. Eliot Let. 11 Oct. (1988) I. 579 What is its present quotation after the dividend?
1944 R. V. Boughton in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder xii. 378/2 There are usually conditions which make it very prudent to obtain many quotations for each job as it is estimated.
1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green v. 28 Share quotations were suspended for two dodgy finance companies.
1993 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Jan. 66/1 This stamp always has a hefty quotation in continental catalogues and despite its astronomical rise it is still worth acquiring if you can afford it.
Compounds
C1. General attributive and objective.† quotation justifier n. Obsolete
quotation-capping n.
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1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Apr. 5/1 Characters who..indulge themselves in a little bout of quotation-capping.
1987 K. Foster Petrarch 169 At times 'Franciscus' and 'Augustinus' seem like two scholars engaged in a game of quotation-capping—each vying with the other in giving proof of an easy familiarity with Virgil, Cicero..and the rest.
quotation game n.
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1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death vii. 106 There is a time to play quotation-games and a time to refrain.
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 109 Quotation justifiers, spaces for justifying lines of quotations.
quotation-monger n.
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1750 Student 1 No. 8. 284 The Author shews his skill and address as a Quotation-monger.
1961 New Left Rev. Jan. 59/2 Thompson doesn't know what to do with..us..condemn us as quotation mongers? class us with elitists?
2001 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 9 Mar. 8 Like most Chinese sayings, it was originally a phrase used by that inveterate quotation-monger Confucius.
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quotation mark n. either of a pair of punctuation marks (in English, single or double inverted commas, ‘ ’ or ‘‘ ’’) used esp. to mark quoted text; usually in plural; cf. quote n.2 2b and quote mark n. at quote n.2 Compounds.Although quotation marks are principally used to mark the beginning and end of a quoted passage, a gloss, the title of an article, etc., and to enclose words regarded as informal, slang, or jargon, they are also used to mark text as being discussed rather than used (or used apologetically), and in other contexts.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > quotation marks
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1715 F. Shaw Refl. Layman's Vindic. 19 I have used those Words indeed in my Explication of the Sense of the Rubrick, but not as part of the Rubrick; that I have fairly transcribed with the Quotation Marks before it.
1795 J. Wallace Savillon's Elegies Introd. p. viii Those lines and ideas which I was conscious, or even suspected, were not my own, are distinguished with quotation marks.
1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 408/2 Much would be gained, too, if the citations, in the New Testament from the Old, were indicated by quotation marks.
1889 Amer. Anthropologist 2 79 The single initial quotation mark (‘) denotes an initial modification of the following vowel.
1897 Cent. Mag. 563/1 I must put play in quotation-marks to express the sarcasm of it.
1928 Classical Q. 22 61 If the citation begins in the body of a line a single quotation mark is placed immediately before its first word.
2006 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 11 Nov. c10 The theory of evolution is fact. Not ‘fact’ in quotation marks, to be picked apart by deluded doubters, but hard and simple truth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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