† Cital

Obs. rare. [f. CITE v. + -AL 2.]

  1.  Law. Citing, citation, summons.

1760.  Life & Adv. of Cat, 41. It was carried regularly through the forms of cital.

  2.  fig. (Johnson says ‘reproof, impeachment’; Schmidt ‘mention’: cf. CITATION 2, CITE 5.)

1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., V. ii. 62. He made a blushing citall of himselfe, And chid his Trewant youth.