5. (Print.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and
measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank
spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
Quotation marks (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning,
and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in
his own words.
Quo*ta"tion*ist (kw*t"shn*st), n. One who makes, or is given to making,
quotations.
The narrow intellectuals of quotationists.
Milton.
Quote (kwt), 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.