624. C I T 
Kalmia,Ledum, Rhododendron,Telephium.Tur- 
nera, and Azalea. 
CIT,/. [contracted from citizen.'] An inhabitant of a 
city, in an ill ienie ; a pert low townfman ; a pragmatical 
trader: 
We bring you now to fhew what different things 
The cits or clowns are from the courts of kings. Johnfon. 
CI'TADEL,/ \cit adelle, Ft\] A fortrefs; a caftle, or 
place of arms, in a city.—As he came to the crown by 
unjuft means, as unjuflly he kept it; by force of ftranger 
foldiers in citadels , the nefts of tyranny and murderers of 
liberty. Sidney. 
CI'TAL,/. [from cited] Reproof-, impeachment: 
He made a blufhing dial of.himfelf, 
And chid his truant youth. Shakefpcare. 
Summons; citation; call into a court. Quotation ; citation. 
CITATION,/. [citatio, Lat.] Quotation; the adduc¬ 
tion of any paffage from another author; or of another 
man’s words. The paffage or words quoted; a quota¬ 
tion.—View the principles in their own authors, and not 
in the citations of thofe who would confute them. Watts. — 
Enumeration ; mention.—Thefe caufes effeft a confump- 
tion endemic to this ifland : there remains a citation of 
fuch as may produce it in any country. Harvey. 
CITA'TION, in law, a fummons to appear, applied 
particularly to procefs in the fpiritual court. The ecclefi- 
aftical courts proceed according to the courfe of the civil 
and canon laws, by citation, libel, & c. A per foil is not 
generally to be cited to appear out of the diocefe, or pe- 
. culiar jurifdiftion where he lives, unlefs it be by the arch- 
bifhOp, in default of the ordinary, where the ordinary is 
party to the fuit, i.n cafes of appeal, See. and, by law, a 
. defendant may be fued where he lives, though jt is for 
fubtrafting tithes in another diocefe. i Ne/f. 449. By 
Hat. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 9. every archbifhop may cite any 
perfon dwelling in any bifhop’s diocefe within his pro¬ 
vince for herefy, See. if the bifhop or other ordinary con- 
fents; or if the bifhop or ordinary, or judge, do not do 
his duty in punifhing the offence. Where perfons are 
cited out of their diocefe, and live out of the jurifdiftion 
of the bifhop, a prohibition or confultation may be grant¬ 
ed ; but, where perfons live in the diocefe, if when they 
are cited they do not appear, they are to be excommuni¬ 
cated. The above llatute was made to maintain theju¬ 
rifdiftion of inferior dioceles; and, if any perfon is cited 
out of the diocefe, &c. where the civil or canon law doth 
not allow it, the party grieved fhall have double damages. 
If one defame another within the peculiar of the archbi¬ 
fhop, he may be punifhed there, although he dwell in any 
remote place out of the archbifhop’s peculiar. Godb. 190. 
CI'TATORY, adj. [from to cite.] Having the power or 
form of citation.—If a judge cite one to a place, to which 
he cannot Come with fafety, he may freely appeal, though 
an appeal be inhibited in the letters citatory. Ayliffe. 
To CITE, v. a. [cito , Lat.] To fummon to anfwer in a 
court: 
Forthwith the cited dead. 
Of all paft ages, to the general doom 
Shall haften. Milton. 
To enjoin; to call upon another authoritatively; to di- 
reft; to fummon: 
This fad experience cites me to reveal, 
And what I diftate is from what I feel. Prior . 
To quote.—Demonftrations in feripture may not other- 
wife be fhewed than by citing them out of the feripture. 
.Hooker. 1 
CI'TER, f. One who cites into a court. One who 
.quotes; a quoter.—I mull defire the citer henceforward 
to inform us of his editions too. Atterbury. 
CiTE'SS,/. A city woman. A word peculiar to Dry- 
dens 
CIT 
Cits and citeJJ'es raife a joyful ftrain; 
’Tis a good omen to begin a reign. Dry den, 
CI'TH-fERON, a king, who gave his name to a moun¬ 
tain of Bceotia. This mountain was at the fouth of the 
river Afopus. Ifc was facred to Jupiter and the Mufes. 
Aftaeon was torn to pieces by his own dogs on this moun¬ 
tain. Hercules killed there an immenfe lion. Virgil. 
CITHAREX'YLUM,/. [from xiSap, a harp, and fe- 
*ov, wood.] Fiddle-wood; in botany, a genus of the 
clafs didynamia, order angiofpermia, natural order per- 
fonatae. The generic charafters are—Calyx : perian- 
thium one-leafed, bell-form, five-toothed, aqute, perma¬ 
nent. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel-wheel-form : tube 
twice as long as the perianthium, thicker at the top; 
border five-parted, two-lipped; fegments above villofe, 
oblong, truncate, flat, very fpreading. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments four, with the rudiment of a fifth from the middle 
of the tube, filiform, two of them fomewliat longer; an- 
therae oblong, twin, ereft. Piflillum : germ roundifh; 
ltyle filiform, the length of the ftamens; ftigma obtufe- 
headed. Pericarpium : berry roundifh, fomewhat com- 
preffed, one-celled. Seeds: two, ovate, two-celled, con¬ 
vex on one fide, concave on the other, emarginate at the 
end.— EJJ'ential CbaraBer. Calyx five toothed, bell-form ; 
corolla funnel-wheel-form; fegments above villofe, equal; 
berry two-feeded; feeds two-celled. 
Species. 1. Citharexylum cinereum, or afh-coloured 
fiddle-wood: branches round; calyxes toothed. This is 
a tree riling with a round upright trunk, not more than 
a foot in diameter, to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, 
with a handfome branching head; leaves oblong-oval, 
acuminate at both ends, entire, fhining, commonly oppo- 
fite, but fometimes alternate, and frequently three to¬ 
gether, of different fizes, but moftly above half a foot in 
length ; flowers fmall, numerous, odoriferous, on fhort 
pedicels; corolla white; berries fucculent, fhining, foft, 
roundifh, firft green, next red, and, finally, black. Browne 
fays, that it riles not above eight or nine feet in height; 
that the veins of the leaves, and all the tender buds, are 
of a brown colour; the bark of the trunk and lower 
branches of a whitifh afh-colour. It is very common in 
all the Savannas of Jamaica, and is called old-woman's 
bitter. Alfo in the woods of Martinique, where the French 
call it bo is cotelet. 
a. Citharexylum caudatum, or oval-leaved, or long- 
fpiked, fiddle-wood: branches round; calyxes truncate. 
The leaves are obovate; both they and the racemes are 
ereft. It is but a fhrub, fays Browne, which fieldom 
grows above ten or twelve feet in height; and bears a 
greatrnumber of fmall berries, difpofed on divided fpikes 
at the extremities of the branches. It is pretty common 
about Sixteen-mife-walk in Jamaica. 
3. Citharexylum quadrangulare, or fquare-ftalked fid¬ 
dle-wood : branches quadrangular. This differs from the 
firft fpecies in having the berries red when ripe, and all 
the branches, round indeed, but made unequal by four 
ribs running down them. The bark is afh-coloured, and 
it agrees with the cinereum in all other circumftances. 
It is, perhaps, only a variety. The French call it bois cotelet 
carre. Native of the Weft Indies, Jamaica, Martinique, 
&c. Miller thus Aefcribes it: It has an upright trunk 
fifty or fixty feet high, fending out branches on every 
fide, which have feveral angles, or ribs, running longitu¬ 
dinally, garnifhed by three dval fpear-fhaped leaves at 
every joint, ftanding in a triangle, upon fhort foot-ftalks; 
the leaves are about four inches long, and one or two 
broad, of a lively green colour, pretty much notched on 
their edges, having leveral deep veins running from the 
midrib to the edges; they are of a white colour on their 
upper fide, and very prominent on their under; the 
flowers come out from the fides, and alfo at the end of 
the branches, in loofe bunches, which are fucceeded by 
fmall pulpy berries, incloiing two feeds in each. 
4. Citharexylum villoium, or hairy-leaved fiddle-wood; 
leaves 
