rare. [a. F. quotité (16th c.) or f. L. quot how many, quot-us of what number or amount (see QUOTA) + -ITY. Cf. quantity.]
1. = QUOTUM.
1613. F. Robarts, Revenue Gosp., 128. What needeth this contending for the quotity or determinate tenth?
1894. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., June, 360. It is not a fixed quantity … but a fixed quotity of produce.
2. A certain number (of individuals, etc.).
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. ii. These are the thrice-famed ‘Brigands’: an actual existing quotity of persons. Ibid. (1858), Fredk. Gt., I. V. vi. 600. Assisting Prussia … with a like quotity of thousands.
