cital

English

Etymology

cite (verb) +‎ -al (suffix forming nouns of action)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtəl/, [ˈsaɪtl̩]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌɪtəl/, [ˈsʌɪtl̩]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪdəl/, [ˈsaɪdl̩]

Noun

cital (plural citals)

1. A summons to appear, as before a judge.
   • 1760, The Life and Adventures of a Cat:

     It was carried regularly through the forms of cital.

2. citation; quotation
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     He made a blushing citall of himselfe,
     And chid his Trewant youth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cital”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• CLAIT, Latic, ictal, tical