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   quotation
         n 1: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a
               quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several
               important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually
               printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes
               mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: {citation},
               {cite}, {acknowledgment}, {credit}, {reference}, {mention},
               {quotation}]
         2: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited [syn:
            {quotation}, {quote}, {citation}]
         3: a statement of the current market price of a security or
            commodity
         4: the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he
            lacks originality he must rely on quotation"

English Dictionary: quotation by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quotation mark
n
  1. a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
    Synonym(s): quotation mark, quote, inverted comma
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quotidian
adj
  1. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
    Synonym(s): everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quotation \Quo*ta"tion\, n. [From {Quote}.]
      1. The act of quoting or citing.
  
      2. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing
            named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
            --Locke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      3. (Com.) The naming or publishing of the current price of
            stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.
  
      4. Quota; share. [Obs.]
  
      5. (print.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type,
            and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth,
            used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of
            chapters, etc.
  
      {Quotation marks} (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the
            beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage
            quoted from an author in his own words.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quotationist \Quo*ta"tion*ist\, n.
      One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.
  
               The narrow intellectuals of quotationists. --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quotidian \Quo*tid"i*an\, a. [OE. cotidian, L. quotidianus, fr.
      quotidie daily; quotus how many + dies day: cf. OF. cotidien,
      F. quotidien. See {Quota}, {Deity}.]
      Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quotidian \Quo*tid"i*an\, n.
      Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent
      fever or ague which returns every day. --Milton.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Quotations
      from the Old Testament in the New, which are very numerous, are
      not made according to any uniform method. When the New Testament
      was written, the Old was not divided, as it now is, into
      chapters and verses, and hence such peculiarities as these: When
      Luke (20:37) refers to Ex. 3:6, he quotes from "Moses at the
      bush", i.e., the section containing the record of Moses at the
      bush. So also Mark (2:26) refers to 1 Sam. 21:1-6, in the words,
      "in the days of Abiathar;" and Paul (Rom. 11:2) refers to 1
      Kings ch. 17-19, in the words, "in Elias", i.e., in the portion
      of the history regarding Elias.
     
         In general, the New Testament writers quote from the
      Septuagint (q.v.) version of the Old Testament, as it was then
      in common use among the Jews. But it is noticeable that these
      quotations are not made in any uniform manner. Sometimes, e.g.,
      the quotation does not agree literally either with the LXX. or
      the Hebrew text. This occurs in about one hundred instances.
      Sometimes the LXX. is literally quoted (in about ninety
      instances), and sometimes it is corrected or altered in the
      quotations (in over eighty instances).
     
         Quotations are sometimes made also directly from the Hebrew
      text (Matt. 4:15, 16; John 19:37; 1 Cor. 15:54). Besides the
      quotations made directly, there are found numberless allusions,
      more or less distinct, showing that the minds of the New
      Testament writers were filled with the expressions and ideas as
      well as historical facts recorded in the Old.
     
         There are in all two hundred and eighty-three direct
      quotations from the Old Testament in the New, but not one clear
      and certain case of quotation from the Apocrypha (q.v.).
     
         Besides quotations in the New from the Old Testament, there
      are in Paul's writings three quotations from certain Greek
      poets, Acts 17:28; 1 Cor. 15:33; Titus 1:12. These quotations
      are memorials of his early classical education.
     
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