citator
English
Etymology
From Latin citator, agent noun of citare (“to cite”).
Noun
citator (plural citators)
- (law) An index of citations of legal cases and other sources
- 1980, Robert Stuart Lorch, Democratic Process and Administrative Law, →ISBN, page 70:
- A citator will tell you the history and treatment of a case or of a statute or constitutional provision.
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- (obsolete) One who makes a citation; a citer or citor
- 1797, Proceedings of the Vhemic or Westphalian Court, page 440:
- Should the perfon who is summoned conceal himself, letters are written to those among whom he is hid, signifying that he ought to surrender himself at a given time and place ; and if he has taken an asylum in a fortified castle, the citator goes either by night or by day, on foot or on horseback, cuts out three slips from a wooden rail, and places in the incision a coin and the writ of citation.
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Related terms
- citatorial
- citer
- citor
See also
- Shepardize
Anagrams
- Ricotta, ricotta, tarotic
Latin
Verb
citātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of citō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of citō