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Citation   /saɪtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Citation  n.  
1.
An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
2.
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. "This horse load of citations and fathers."
3.
Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
4.
(Law) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.






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"Citation" Quotes from Famous Books



... few poems which I shall present for your consideration, than by the citation of the ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe

... change of "the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob," in Isa. 59: 20, to "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer," in Rom. 11: 26, is an inspired and intentional change.[5] So of the citation from Amos 9: 11, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle that is fallen," as given in Acts 15:16, "After these things I will return, and I will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen"; the modification of the language ...
— The Ministry of the Spirit • A. J. Gordon

... the statement in the last paragraph of the above citation with nothing but a direct negative. If I know anything at all about the results attained by the natural science of our time, it is "a demonstrated conclusion and established fact" that the "fourfold order" given by Mr. Gladstone is not that ...
— The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature - Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley

... knowledge of Ptolemy's canon, should call the same king whom he himself here [Bar. i. 11, and Daniel 5:1, 2, 9, 12, 22, 29, 39] styles Beltazar, or Belshazzar, from the Babylonian god Bel, Naboandelus also; and in the first book against Apion, sect. 19, vol. iii., from the same citation out of Berosus, Nabonnedon, from the Babylonian god Nabo or Nebo. This last is not remote from the original pronunciation itself in Ptolemy's canon, Nabonadius; for both the place of this king in that canon, as the last of the Assyrian or Babylonian kings, and the number of years ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... in its later modern editions, is preceded not merely by several Prefaces, but by an Examen in the old fashion, and fortified by those elaborate citation-notes[33] from authorities ancient and modern which were a mania at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, and which sometimes divert and sometimes enrage more modern readers in work so different as Lalla Rookh and The Pursuits of ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury


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