5. To set down, as in writing. [Obs.] "He's quoted for a most
perfidious slave." Shak.
Syn. -- To cite; name; adduce; repeat. -- 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.
Quote (kwt), n. A note upon an author. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
Quot"er (-r), n. One who quotes the words of another.
Quoth (kwth or kwth), v. t. [AS. cwean, imp. cwÊ, pl. cwdon; akin to
OS. quean, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kvea, Goth. qi˛an. √22.
Cf. Bequeath.] Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and
third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its
nominative, the word or words said being the object: as, quoth I, quoth
he. "Let me not live, quoth he." Shak.
Quoth"a (-), interj. [For quoth 'a said he, 'a being corrupted from
he.] Indeed; forsooth.
To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves With mended
morals, quotha, -- fine new lives !
Mrs. Browning.
Quo*tid"i*an (kw*td"*an), a. [OE. cotidian, L. quotidianus, fr.
quotidie daily; quotus how many + dies day: cf. OF. cotidien, F.
quotidien. See Quota, Deity.] Occurring or returning daily; as, a
quotidian fever.
Quo*tid"i*an (kw*td"*an), n. Anything returning daily; especially
(Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day. Milton.
Quo"tient (kw"shent), n. [F., fr. L. quoties how often, how many times,
fr. quot how many. See Quota.]
1. (Arith.) The number resulting from the division of one number by
another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater;
thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.
2. (Higher Alg.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication.
See the Note under Multiplication.
Quo*ti"e*ty (kw*t"*t), n. [L. quotus of what number, quot how many.]
(Scholastic Philos.) The relation of an object to number.
Krauth-Fleming.
Quo"tum (kw"tm), n. [NL., fr. L. quotus of what number. See Quota.]
Part or proportion; quota. [R.] "A very small quotum." Max M¸ller.
||Quo` war*ran"to (kw` wr*rn"t). [So called from the Law L. words quo
||warranto (by what authority), in the original Latin form of the writ.
||See Which, and Warrant.] (Law) A writ brought before a proper
||tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts,
||or exercises certain powers. Blackstone.
An information in the nature of a quo warranto is now common as a
substitute for the writ. Wharton.
Qu*ran" (k*r‰n"), n. See Koran.