Crossword clues for quoting
quoting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
(Com.) To name the current price of.
To notice; to observe; to examine. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of quote English)
Usage examples of "quoting".
Perhaps Eusebius is quoting Papias correctly, but even so, what can we glean from that quotation?
Brierre de Boismont and Meisner describe a case apparently identical with the foregoing, though not quoting the source.
Van Swieten, quoting from Benivenius, relates a case of a man who once a month sweated great quantities of blood from his right flank.
Von Chelius, quoting the younger Naegele, gives a remarkable instance of a young peasant of thirty-five, the mother of four children, pregnant with the fifth child, who was struck on the belly violently by a blow from a wagon pole.
It is a matter of conjecture what the effect would be of such a premium in countries with a lowering birth-rate, and a French medical journal, quoting the foregoing, regretfully wishes for some countrymen at home like their brothers in Quebec.
Edwin Mims, in his biography of Sidney Lanier, concludes by quoting this poem.
His attempt at quoting is from a passage which I believe I can quote accurately from memory.
I will state, without quoting further, for all will have an opportunity of reading it hereafter, that Judge Trumbull brings forward what he regards as sufficient evidence to substantiate this charge.
Hence I can simply refer to the relevant book and page when quoting from them, and that reference will hopefully be precise enough.
When quoting Primitive Elvish forms, I will however use circumflexes to mark long vowels.
Want of space will, indeed, prevent my quoting from more than one other paragraph of Mr.
When quoting biblical passages myself, I have indicated the translation used.
This is a famous passage in which Paul is probably quoting from an early Christian hymn about the emptying of Christ, who was equal to God yet took the form of a man, of a slave, and suffered the extreme penalty, the Crucifixion.
Kundera is playing on the incongruity of the phrase, as well as on the near total indeterminacy of its referent, for it is impossible to know whether the rioting students came to it spontaneously, or whether the graffitti author was knowingly quoting Rimbaud: a neat textual demonstration of the impossibility to determine clearly whether art is imitating life or vice-versa.
An army of unemployed led by millionaires quoting the Sermon on the Mount -- that is our danger.