quotability 
quotability (kwo-ta-bil'i-ti), H. [< quotable + 
-Hi/ (see -bi/iti/).'] 'Capability of or fitness for 
being quoted ; quotable quality. 
It is the prosaicism of these two writers [Cowper and 
Moore] to which is owing their especial quotabilitii. 
Poe, Marginalia, xxviii. (Davieg.) 
quotable (kwo'ta-bl), . [< quote + -able.'] 
Capable of or suitable for being quoted or 
cited. 
Mere vividness of expression, such as makes quotable 
passages, comes of the complete surrender of self to the 
impression, whether spiritual or sensual, of the moment. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 176. 
quotableness (kwo'ta-bl-nes), n. Quotability. 
Attienxtim, Nov. 24, 1888, p. 693. 
quotably (kwo'ta-bli), adv. So as to be quoted ; 
in a quotable manner. 
All qualities of round coal prices are weak, though not 
quotably lower. The Enyineer, LXV. 613. 
Quotation (kwo-ta'shon), H. [< quote + -ation.] 
1. The act of 'quoting or citing. 
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over 
the world. Johnson, in Boswell, an. 1781. 
Emerson . . . believed in quotation, and borrowed from 
everybody, . . . not in any stealthy or shame-faced way, 
but proudly. 0. W. Holmes, Emerson, xii. 
2. That which is quoted; an expression, a 
statement, or a passage cited or repeated as 
the utterance of some other speaker or writer ; 
a citation. 
When the quotation is not only apt, but has in it a term 
of wit or satire, it is still the better qualified for a medal, 
as it has a double capacity of pleasing. 
Addigon, Ancient Medals, iii. 
3. In com., the current price of commodities 
or stocks, published in prices-current, etc. 
A quotation of price such as appears in a daily price list 
is, if there has been much fluctuation, only a very rough 
guide to the actual rates of exchange that have been the 
basis of the successive bargains making up the day's busi- 
ness. Eneye. Brit., XXII. 465. 
4. [Abbr. of quotation-quadrat.'] In printing, 
a large hollow quadrat, usually of the size 3X4 
picas, made for the larger blanks in printed 
matter. [IT. S.] = Syn. 2. Extract. See quote. 
quotational (kwo-ta'shou-al), a. [< quotation 
+ -ai.] Of or pertaining to quotations ; as a 
quotation . 
quotationist (kwo-ta'shon-ist), u. [< quotation 
+ -ist.~] One who makes quotations. 
Considered not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of 
quotationints and common places. 
Hilton, Divorce, To the Parlament. 
quotation-mark (kwo-ta'shon-mark), n. One 
of the marks used to note the beginning and 
the end of a quotation. In English, quotation-marks 
generally consist of two inverted commas at the beginning 
and two apostrophes at the end of a quotation; but a 
single comma and a single apostrophe are also used, es- 
pecially in Great Britain. In the former case the mark* 
ing of a quotation within a quotation is single ; in the 
latter, properly double. Single quotation-marks are often 
used, as in this work, to mark a translation. Quotation- 
marks for printing in French, German, etc., are types 
specially cut and cast for this use ; and in some fonts for 
printing in English characters have been made for the 
beginning of quotations corresponding in reverse to the 
apostrophes at the end. 
quote (kwot), c. ; pret. and pp. quoted, ppr. 
quoting. [Formerly also cote; < OF. quoter, 
voter, F. cotcr, letter, number, quote (in com- 
mercial use), < ML. quotare, mark off into 
chapters and verses, give a reference, < L. 
quotus, of what number, how many, < quot, as 
many as.] I. trans. It. To note down; set 
down in writing; hence, in general, to note; 
mark; observe. 
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, 
Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 2. 222. 
I am sorry that with better heed and judgement 
I had not quoted him. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 1. 112. 
Wherfore I was desirous to see it again, and to read it 
with more deliberation, and, being sent to me a second 
time, it was thus quoted in the margent as ye see. 
Foxe, Martyrs, p. 1110, an. 1543. 
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2. To adduce from some author or speaker; 
cite, as a passage from some author or a saying 
of some speaker; name, repeat, or adduce as 
the utterance of some other person, or by way 
of authority or illustration ; also, to cite the 
words of: as, to quote a passage from Homer; 
to quote Shakspere or one of his plays; to quote 
chapter and verse. 
He quoted texts right upon our Saviour, though he ex- 
pounded them wrong. Atterbury. 
As long as our people quote English standards they 
dwarf their own proportions. Emenon, Conduct of Life. 
3. In writing or jn-in ting, to inclose within quo- 
tation-marks ; distinguish as a quotation or as 
quoted matter by marking: as, the dialogue in 
old books is not quoted. 4. In com,., to name, 
as the price of stocks, produce, etc. ; name the 
current price of. Quoted matter, in printing, com* 
posed types that are inclosed by quotation-marks: thus, 
" ". = Syn. 2. Quote, Cite, Adduce, Recite. Whenwejuote 
or recite, we repeat the exact words ; when we cite or ad- 
duce, we may only refer to the passage without quoting it, 
or we may give the substance of the passage. We may 
quote a thing for the pleasure that we take in it or for any 
other reason : as, to quote a saying of Izaak Walton's. We 
cite or adduce a thing in proof of some assertion or doc- 
trine : as, to cite an authority in court ; to adduce confir- 
matory examples. Adduce, besides being broader in its 
use, is stronger than cite, as to urge in proof. Recite, in this 
connection, applies to the quoting of a passage of some 
length : as, to recite a law ; to recite the conversation of Lo- 
renzo and Jessica at Belmont. It generally implies that 
the passage is given orally from memory, but not necessa- 
rily, as a petition recite*, etc. ; the others may be freely used 
of that which is read aloud or only written. 
H. intrans. To cite the words of another; 
make a quotation. 
quote (kwot), n. [In def. 1, < OF. quote; in 
other senses < quote, i>.] If. A note upon an 
author. 
O were thy margents cliffes of itching lust, 
Or quotet to chalke out men the way to sin, 
Then were there hope that multitudes wold thrust 
To buy thee. C. Tourneur, Transformed Metamorpho- 
[sis, Author to his Booke. 
2. A quotation, or the marking of a quotation. 
This column of ' Local Notes and Queries" . . . has been 
succeeded by a column entitled "Notes and Quote*." 
JT. and Q., 7th ser., VIL 505. 
3. A quotation-mark: usually in the plural. 
[Colloq.] 4t. A quotient. [Rare.] 
quoteless (kwot'les), n. [< quote + -letis.~\ Not 
capable or worthy of being quoted ; unquotable. 
Wright. 
quoter (kwo'ter), . One who quotes or cites 
the words of an author or a speaker. 
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first 
of it. Emerson, Quotation and Originality. 
quoteworthy (kwot' wer'THi), a. Deserving of 
quotation. [Rare.] 
In Home's " Spirit of the Age" are some quoteworthy re- 
marks. The Sew Mirror (N. Y., 1843X III. 
quoth (kwoth). Preterit of quethe. [Obsolete 
or archaic.] 
"Good morrow, fool," quoth I. "No, sir," quoth he, 
"Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune." 
Mat., As yon Like it, ii. 7. 18. 
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." Poe, The Raven. 
quotha (k wo'tha), interj. [For quoth a, and that 
for quoth he, a being a corruption of he : see a 6 .] 
Forsooth! indeed! originally a parenthetical 
phrase used in repeating the words of another 
with more or less contempt or disdain. 
Here are ye clavering about the Duke of Argyle, and this 
man Martingale gaun to break on our hands, and lose us 
gude sixty pounds I wonder what duke will pay that, 
quotha. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, \.\iv. 
quotidian (kwo-tid'i-an), a. and n. [< ME. co- 
tidien, < OF. quotidien, cotidien, F. quotidien = 
Pr. cotidian, cotedian = Sp. cotidiano = Pg. It. 
quotidiano, < L. quotidianus, cottidianus, daily, 
< quotidie, cottidie, cotidie, daily, < quot, as many 
as, + dies, day: see dial.'] I. a. Daily; occur- 
ring or returning daily: as, a quotidian fever. 
Common and quotidian infirmities that so necessarily at- 
tend me. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 7. 
Like the human body, with ^quotidian life, a periodical 
recurrence of ebbing and flowing tides. 
Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 173. 
Double quotidian fever. See/eoeri. 
II. n. 1. Something that returns or is ex- 
pected every day; specifically, in med., a fever 
whose paroxysms return every day. 
He seems to have the quotidian of love upon him. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 383. 
A disposition which to his he finds will never cement, a 
quotidian of sorrow and discontent in his house. 
Milton, Divorce, ii. 16. 
2f. A cleric or church officer who does daily 
duty. 3f. Payment given for such duty. 
quotient (kwo'shent), n. [= F. quotient; with 
accom. term, -eri't, < L. quotics, qnotienx, how 
often, how many times, < qupt, how many, as 
many as.] In math., the result of the process 
of division ; the number of times one quantity 
or number is contained in another. See iliri- 
sion, 2.- Differential quotient. Same as diferential 
coefficient (which see, under coefficient). 
quotiety (kwo-ti'e-ti), n. [< L. quoties, how 
often (see quotient) + -e-ty.~] The proportion- 
ate frequency of an event. 
quotity (kwot'i-ti), n. [< L. quot, how many, + 
--fy.] 1. The number of individuals in a col- 
lection. 2. A collection considered as contain- 
ing a number of individuals. Carlyle, French 
Rev., I. ii. 
quotqueant, . A corruption of cotquean. 
Don Quot-quean, Don Spinster! wear a petticoat still, and 
put on your smock a' Monday. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, it. 2. 
quotum (kwo'tum), n. [L., neut. of quotus, of 
what number, how many, < quot, how many, as 
many as.] A quota; a share; a proportion. 
[Rare.] 
The number of names which are really formed by an imi- 
tation of sound dwindles down to a very small quotum if 
cross-examined by the comparative philologist. 
Max Miiller. 
quo warranto (kwo wo-ran'to). [So called 
from these words in the writ : L. quo, by what 
(abl. sing. neut. of quis, who, which, what); 
ML. warranto, abl. of warrantum, warrant: see 
warrant] In law, a writ calling upon a person 
or body of persons to show by what warrant 
they exercise a public office, privilege, fran- 
chise, or liberty. It is the remedy for usurpa- 
tion of office or of corporate franchises, etc. 
Information or action in the nature of a quo war- 
ranto, a statement of complaint by a public prosecutor or 
complainant to the court : now used in many jurisdictions 
in lieu of the ancient writ of quo warranto. 
Quran, n. Same as Koran. 
quyt. n. Same as quey. Halliwell. 
quyrboillet, quyrboillyt. Obsolete forms of 
cvir-bouilli. 
The Gentyles ban schorte Speres and large, and fulle 
trenchant on that o syde : and the! han Plates and Uelmes 
made of Quyrboylle, and hire Hors covertoures of the 
same. Mandeville, Travels, p. 251. 
His jambeux were of quyrboilly. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 164. 
quyssewest, A Middle English form of 
cuishes. 
quysshent, An obsolete form of cushion. 
And doun she sette hire by hym on a stone 
Of jasper, on a quywhen [var. (16th century) quishin} gold 
ybette. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1229. 
q. v. An abbreviation (a) of the Latin phrase 
qttantumvis, ' as much as you will '; (ft) of quod 
ride, 'which see.' 
qw. See qu. 
qwelet, An obsolete form of wheel. 
qweseynt, An obsolete form of cushion. 
qwethert, adv. An obsolete dialectal variant 
of whether. 
qwh-. See wh-. 
qwhatt, pron. A Middle English dialectal form 
of what. 
qwichet, pron. An obsolete dialectal form of 
which. 
qy. An abbreviation of query. 
