Definitions
call in an official matter, such as to attend court
Word origin
From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”). Sense 4 is the original one.
Used in a sentence
“Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.”
“We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“quote formally”4 letters
02“Quote as evidence”4 letters
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