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Quoted

Quote \Quote\ (kw[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quoting.] [OF. quoter, F. coter to letter, number, to quote, LL. quotare to divide into chapters and verses, fr. L. quotus. See Quota.] [Formerly written also cote.]

  1. To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

  2. To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.

  3. (Com.) To name the current price of.

  4. To notice; to observe; to examine. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  5. To set down, as in writing. [Obs.] ``He's quoted for a most perfidious slave.''
    --Shak.

    Syn: To cite; name; adduce; repeat.

    Usage: Quote, Cite. To cite was originally to call into court as a witness, etc., and hence denotes bringing forward any thing or person as evidence. Quote usually signifies to reproduce another's words; it is also used to indicate an appeal to some one as an authority, without adducing his exact words.

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quoted

vb. (en-past of: quote)

Usage examples of "quoted".

The Fskimo makes his or of Lord Strathcona, quoted in her appearance: Hugh Brody, Liv Pedley, Biography ofLord ing Arctic: Hunters oftbe Cana Strathcona, pp.

FBI interview quoted from FBI 302 interview transcript, Hamilton Jordan, August 24, 1979, Records Relating to the Hamilton Jordan Investigation, Records of the Independent Counsels, National Archives II, RB 449, Box 2.

Unnamed Carter aides were quoted as saying that like his mentor, Carter could be brutal and intimidating, not given to praise.

A large man, with a giant face and eyebrows and jowls that shook ferociously when he talked, Ervin regularly quoted from Shakespeare, the Bible and the Bill of Rights, and he carried around a copy of the U.

Administration officials and congressional investigators were quoted saying the Iran arms sales were in practice a cynical trade of weapons for American hostages.

The new Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, was talking tough and was quoted saying 20 task forces or subcommittees might investigate corruption in the Clinton White House, although he later backed off on the number 20.

Advance news stories quoted sources saying the video showed Clinton at times in a rage and blind fury.

Kissinger quoted from Chuck Wardell contemporaneous diary entry, August 11, 1974, referring to an August 1, 1974, Kissinger to Haig conversation.

The Carter memorandum to Congress is quoted from Peggy Simpson, Associated Press, February 25, 1977.

Christy: Order quoted from Arthur Christy, Report of Special Prosecutor on Alleged Possession of Cocaine by Hamilton Jordan in Violation of 21 U.

Director Casey later sat down: Casey letter quoted from Shultz memoir, 837.

Nixon quoted from conversation with Bill Timmons, his head of congressional relations.

Bush quoted from his Passportgate diary entries for December 9, 1992, Records of Independent Counsel Joseph diGenova, National Archives II, Box 190.

October 1, the new: Interrogatories quoted from court records in Jones Civil Action, No.

George Stephen, quoted in Albro quoted in Willson, Life ofLord Marti n,,7amesy.