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<h1>Citicism</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit"i*cism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>cit</ets>.]</ety> <def>The manners of a cit or citizen.</def>

<h1>Citied</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit"ied</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Belonging to, or resembling, a city.</def> "Smoky, <i>citied</i> towns" <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Containing, or covered with, cities.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "The <i>citied</i> earth."

<i>Keats.</i>

<h1>Citified</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit"i*fied</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>City</ets> +<ets>-fy</ets>.]</ety> <def>Aping, or having, the manners of a city.</def>

<h1>Citigrad\'91</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit`i*gra"d\'91</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>citus</ets> swift (p. p. of <ets>cire</ets>, <ets>ciere</ets>, to move) + <ets>gradi</ets> to walk. See <er>Cite</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (<spn>Lycosidae</spn>) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See <er>Wolf spider</er>.</def>

<h1>Citigrade</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit"i*grade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>citigrade</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to the Citigrad\'91.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def> One of the Citigrad\'91.</def></def2>

<h1>Citiner</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit"i*ner</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Champan.</i>

<h1>Citizen</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit"i*zen</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>citisein</ets>, OF. <ets>citeain</ets>, F. <ets>citoyen</ets>, fr. <ets>cit\'82</ets> city. See <er>City</er>, and cf. <er>Cit</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.</def>

<blockquote>That large body of the working men who were not counted as <b>citizens</b> and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.</def>

<note>&hand; This protection is . . . national protection, recognition of the individual, in the face of foreign nations, as a member of the state, and assertion of his security and rights abroad as well as at home.</note>

<i>Abbot</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal <i>status</i> from such country.</def>

<h1>Citizen</h1> <Xpage=260>

<hw>Cit"i*zen</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; <as>as, a <ex>citizen</ex> soldiery</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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