CITATION, n.
1. A summons; an official call or notice, given to a person, to appear in a court, and answer to a demand; a call or notice to appear, in various other cases, and the paper containing such notice or call.
2. Quotation; the act of citing a passage from a book; or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted.
3. Enumeration; mention.
