Obs. Sc. and north dial. Forms: 5 cyttenere, 6 cytener, citenar, citinar, 7 cittiner, citiner. [f. OF. citien, citein + -ER. -AR: cf. Sc. medicin-ar, logicin-ar, also astronom-er, practition-er, etc.] = CITIZEN.
c. 1450. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 684/2. Hic civis, a cyttenere.
1529. Rastell, Pastyme Brit. (1811), 208. Smote of … a cyteners hede called Marshall.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858), I. 154. With citenaris that duelt into that toun.
1549. Compl. Scot., Prol. 11. The citinaris of cartomat. Ibid., xx. 167. Citinaris and induellaris of ane cite.
1606. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), 313. The citineris of the towne of Dunkeld.
a. 1652. Brome, Damoiselle, II. i. Wks. 1873, I. 403. I am come. I keep my day you see before I am a Cittiner among you.
