a. [ad. L. citātōri-us, f. citātōr-em, f. citāre to cite.]
1. Having the faculty of citing or summoning; concerned with citation; esp. in Letters citatory.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xv. 14. The Archbishop … caused his letters citatorie to be set vpon the gates of the Cathedrall Church of Rochester.
1672. Life & Death J. Arminius & S. Episcopius, II. 14. Injoyned by the Deputies of the States-General in their Citatory Letters.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 176. Letters Citatory.
1824. Southey, Bk. of Ch. (1841), 215. Letters citatory were twice affixed upon the great gates of Rochester Cathedral.
2. Addicted to quotation. nonce-use.
1819. Monthly Rev., LXXXIX. 357. His style is elegant, though citatory.
