Meaning & use
cital
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An archaic term for a citation, summons, or formal act of quoting or referring to something.
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The old legal record contained a cital summoning the tenant to appear before the manor court.
The scholar noted a cital of scripture buried within the sermon's opening lines.
A note on using this word
"Cital" is now archaic in everyday English but occasionally survives in historical legal texts as an older form of "citation."
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