[f. QUOTE v. + -ER1.] One who quotes.
1589. Pasquil’s Ret., B iij. They are great quoters of common places.
1674. Boyle, Excell. Theol., II. v. 194. Small Tracts,… being preserv’d in such a quoter or abridger.
a. 1732. Atterbury (J.). I propose this passage entire, to take of the disguise which its quoter put upon it.
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. II. 26. A quoter is either ostentatious of his acquirements or doubtful of his cause.
1875. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
