Obs. rare. [f. CITE v. + -AL 2.]
1. Law. Citing, citation, summons.
1760. Life & Adv. of Cat, 41. It was carried regularly through the forms of cital.
2. fig. (Johnson says ‘reproof, impeachment’; Schmidt ‘mention’: cf. CITATION 2, CITE 5.)
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., V. ii. 62. He made a blushing citall of himselfe, And chid his Trewant youth.
