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QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The words erroneously repeated....
quote chapter and verse: [by analogy with the mainstream phrase] v.
To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate {bible}....
Quote Learned but follow Gus. -- Anonymous (Learned Hand and his less eloquent but more pragmatic cousin, Augustus, both sat on the U.
S. Court of Appeals)...
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. -- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
Quote of The Day: '
Quote: "Under Constructio
QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another -- usually about as many times as it can be got there.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "T...
Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect. 2, M...
Q: "Uph, I'm not hungry." -- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
quux: /kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri

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