Also 4–7 cote, 6 cott, quoate, 6–7 coat. [ad. med.L. quotāre to mark the number of, distinguish by numbers, f. quot how many, or quota QUOTA. Cf. F. coter, † cotter (15th c.), whence prob. the obs. forms cote, cott.]
I. † 1. trans. To mark (a book) with numbers (as of chapters, etc.), or with (marginal) references to other passages or works. Obs. rare.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VIII. 205. Stevene þe archbisshop … coted [L. quotavit] þe Bible at Parys, and marked þe chapitres.
1570. Foxe, A. & M., 1394/2. I was desirous to see it agayne,… and beyng sent to me the second tyme, it was thus coted [1596 quoted] in ye margent as ye see.
† b. To mark (with lines). Obs. rare–1.
F. coter is similarly used by Amyot, ‘cicatrisez et cottez de poinctes et picqueures’ (Godef., Compl.).
1601. Weever, Mirr. Mart., C ij. Thou faire frame, with azure lines thick quoted, Bright heauen.
† 2. To give the reference to (a passage in a book), by specifying the page, chapter, etc., where it is to be found. Obs.
1574. Whitgift, Def. Aunsw., 800. They quote for that purpose in the margent the .10. of Matth. verse .14 .15.
1581. J. Hamilton, in Catholic Tract. (S.T.S.), 104. Quhy haue ye not cottit the places of your bybill, quhair out thaj ar drauin.
1638. Featly, Transubst., 46. If you have read … the passages which you cote out of Jewell.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. 280. What needed he to quote any places to prove his doctrine?
fig. 1588. Shaks., L. L. L., II. 246. His faces owne margent did coate such Amazes.
† b. absol. To set down references; to refer to.
1580. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 270. He … desired few parentheses or digressions or gloses, but the text, where he him-self was coting [later eds. coating] in the margant.
1657. F. Cockin, Div. Blossomes, 119. Another Book by the same Authour, to the which this Quotes, and would be of great use to go along with this.
3. † a. To cite or refer to (a book, author, etc.) for a particular statement or passage. Obs. b. To copy out or repeat a passage or passages from.
1589. Pasquil’s Ret., c. Mar. … in other places he quoates Scripture. Pas. He coateth Scriptures indeed.
1692. Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. Pop., M.’s Wks. 1738, I. 495. Pope Zachary … in a Letter of his to the French, which you your self quote.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 197, ¶ 6. He shall quote and recite one Author against another.
1781. Wilkes, in Boswell, Johnson, 8 May. Upon the continent they all quote the Vulgate Bible. Shakspeare is chiefly quoted here.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iii. I. 391. One series … will be occasionally quoted in the course of this work.
1871. Jowett, Plato, IV. 61. He still quotes the poets.
4. To copy out or repeat (a passage, statement, etc.) from a book, document, speech, etc., with some indication that one is giving the words of another (unless this would otherwise be known).
a. 1680. Butler, Upon Plagiaries, 102. ’Twas counted learning once … what men understood by rote, By as implicit sense to quote.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 333, ¶ 1. I omitted quoting these passages in my Observations on the former books.
1771. Junius Lett., liv. 283. He quotes verses without mercy.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. xxvii. 378. I quote the following passage from this paper.
1878. R. W. Dale, Lect. Preach., v. 142. The rest of the sermon it is unnecessary to quote.
b. absol. To make quotations (from a book, author, etc.).
1787. Burns, Extempore in Crt. Session. He clench’d his pamphlets … He quoted and he hinted.
1827. Lytton, Pelham, xiv. [He] had a peculiar art of quoting from each author he reviewed.
1874. Green, Short Hist., iii. § 5. 142. He … quotes largely from state documents,… and exchequer rolls.
II. † 5. To write down; to make a note or record of, set down, mention in writing. Obs.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 9. New lessons then I noted, and some of them I coted.
1589. Greene, Menaphon (Arb.), 76. Her browes are pretie tables of conceate, Where Love his records of delight doth quoate.
1612. Webster, White Devil, Wks. (Rtldg.), 27/2. It is reported you possess a book Wherein you have quoted by intelligence The names of all offenders.
a. 1635. Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 34. It is already quoted, they were such as awakened her spirits.
fig. 1595. Shaks., John, IV. ii. 222. A fellow by the hand of Nature mark’d, Quoted, and sign’d to do a deede of shame.
1599. Middleton, Micro-cynicon, III. Fine madam Tiptoes … That quotes her paces in characters down.
† b. To take mental note of; to notice, observe, mark, scrutinize. Obs.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., IV. i. 50. Note how she quotes the leaues. Ibid. (1592), Rom. & Jul., I. iv. 31. What care I What curious eye doth quote deformities.
1607. Beaumont, Woman Hater, III. iii. I’ll quote him to a tittle, let him speak wisely, and plainly,… or I shall crush him.
1640. Gent, Knave in Gr., I. i. B iij. My knowledge coated, and all Italy spoke of a Damosell called Cornelia.
absol. 1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 137. Who minds to cote, vpon this note, may easily find ynough.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, II. i. To obserue, To quote, to learne the language, and so forth.
† c. To mention in speaking. Obs. rare–1.
1612. Pasquil’s Night-Cap (1877), 23. Here could I cote a rabble of those wiues, that you would wonder but to heare them nam’d.
6. † a. To regard, look on, take as something; to note, set down (a person or thing) for something; to speak of, mention, bring forward for having done something. Obs.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. iii. 87. Her Amber haires for foule hath amber coted. Ibid., V. ii. 796. Our letters … shew’d much more then Iest…. Rosa. We did not coat them so. Ibid. (1601), All’s Well, V. iii. 205. He’s quoted for a most perfidious slaue.
a. 1635. Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 42. They quote him for a person that loved to stand too much alone.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. xxxiii. Dr. Robert Wood … hath not been by any Author … so much as quoted for his illuminating us.
1722. De Foe, Relig. Courtsh., I. ii. (1840), 61. We can’t quote our fathers for anything that is fit to be named.
b. To bring forward, adduce, allege, cite as an instance of or as being something.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), I. Introd. As I will evidence in a few instances already quoted.
1855. Bain, Senses & Int., II. i. § 6 (1864), 77. No impression from without can be quoted as originating this contraction.
1858. W. Porter, Knts. Malta, 277. This has, in more than one case, been quoted as an excuse.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., vii. 173. Few instances of concentrated disdain could be quoted as more pungent.
7. To state the price of (a commodity).
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. xx. 493. There are entries of shingle-nails, though no shingles are quoted.
1884. Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 7. The Leeds securities had been quoted, and to a large amount sold, upon the … exchanges.
Hence Quoted ppl. a. Quotee, one who is quoted. Quoteless a., ‘that cannot be quoted’ (Wright). Quoteworthy a., worthy of being quoted. Quoting vbl. sb. Quotingly adv.
1608. Middleton, Mad World, I. ii. Let him find Some book lie open … And *coted scripture.
1858. J. B. Norton, Topics, 4, note. The perusal of quoted as well as original matter.
1861. Sat. Rev., 14 Dec., 600. The quoted prices merely tell us that buyers or sellers … are on the increase.
1821. Examiner, 22 July, 461/1. Quotations of us between inverted commas without naming the *quotee.
1870. F. Jacox, Rec. Recluse, II. xii. 241. [His] description … is curious, and (to coin a phrase) *quoteworthy: ‘A man like a snake, of black complexion, yellow eyes, and a coat covered with ducats.’
1580. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 320. I see thou art come … from *coting of ye Scriptures to courting with Ladies.
1714. Fortescue-Aland, Pref. Fortescue’s Abs. & Lim. Mon., 56. Like quoting of Dacier, for a Verse in Horace.
1657. J. Sergeant, Schism Dispatch’t, Post-scr., Their old method of talking preachingly, *quotingly and quibblingly.
