CITE, verb transitive 1. To call upon officially, or authoritatively; to summon; to give legal or official notice, as to a defendant to appear in court, to answer or defend. 2. To enjoin; to direct; to summon; to order or urge. 3. To quote; to name or repeat, as a passage or the words of another, either from a book or from verbal communication; as, to cite a passage from scripture, or to cite the very words a man utters. 4. To call or name, in support, proof or confirmation; as, to cite an authority to prove a point in law.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI