Word Meanings - CITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To notify of a proceeding in court. Abbot Syn. -- To quote; mention, name; refer to; adduce; select; call; summon. See Quote. (more info) citer, fr. L. citare, intens. of cire, ciere, to put in motion, to excite; akin to Gr. 1. To call

Additional info about word: CITE

To notify of a proceeding in court. Abbot Syn. -- To quote; mention, name; refer to; adduce; select; call; summon. See Quote. (more info) citer, fr. L. citare, intens. of cire, ciere, to put in motion, to excite; akin to Gr. 1. To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon. The cited dead, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. Milton. Cited by finger of God. De Quincey. 2. To urge; to enjoin. Shak. 3. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Shak. 4. To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation. The imperfections which you have cited. Shak. 5. To bespeak; to indicate. Aged honor cites a virtuous youth. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CITE)

• Accuse
• Charge
• incriminate
• impeach
• arraign
• tax
• taunt
• censure
• cite
• summon
• criminate
• Adduce
• Allege
• apply
• advance
• offer
• introduce
• produce
• add
• import
• name
• mention
• quote
• Declare
• affirm
• assert
• asseverate
• depose
• plead
• assign
• maintain
• say
• Appeal
• Accost
• address
• apostrophize
• invite
• invoke
• urge
• refer
• call upon
• entreat
• request
• resort
• Collate
• collect
• compare
• gather
• induct
• extract

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CITE)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate
• Shun
• discard

Related words: (words related to CITE)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• COMPARE
  To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DECOLLATED
  Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.