Middle English Dictionary Entry
cīten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | cīten v. |
| Etymology | OF citer & L citāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To summon or notify (sb.) to appear before a court or a superior; ~ bi office, summon officially.
Associated quotations
- (1438) Proc.Privy C.5.103 : Cityng him to appere at the saide courte.
- (1440) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.1109 : And cited me to apere afore yowe..of the whiche inhibicyon I myght neyþere hafe syght ne copy.
- (1445) ?Bokenham Claudian CS (Add 11814)p.297 : The worlde was cited tappiere in Rome.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)209/25 : Hym þoght þer come Saynt Martyn..and accusid þe archbisshopp of þe same kurk; & he was cityd & come.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)85 : To cite thee to assises of jugement.
- (a1460) Let.Stubbe in Nrf.Archaeol.2354 : John..was cyted be offyce to a peryn aforn maystr Robt Popye in ye Byshopps chapel at Norwych.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)190 : In this same tyme cam embassiatouris fro the King of Frauns, cytyng the Kyng of Ynglond to come and do homage to the new Kyng Charles for the londis of Gian.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)636/9 : Þe abbas & couent, ofte times I-citid..apperid a-fore vs in Iugement.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.281 : Herode intendenge the dethe of innocentes, was citede [Trev.: i-sompned; L citatus est] by an epistole to comme to Rome to themperour, to the accusacion of Alexander and of Aristobolus his sonnes.
Note: New form: P.ppl. citede.
Note: Quot. antedates word.--per MLL