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Cité, Citté, Cit(t)ie, n. Also: citee, cyte; scitie. [ME. cité (c 1225), citee, cyte(e, citie, etc., OF. cité, cyté, L. cīvitāt-, cīvitas. Cf. Ceté and Cieté.] A city, town.(a) 1375 Barb. iii. 213.
To Rome … Thar to distroye the cite all Ib. xv. 92.
All the vitalis of that cite a1400 Leg. S. ii. 931.
In cites and wildirnes c1420 Wynt. i. 563.
Witht-in that ile ar citeis ten 1456 Hay I. 38/35.
Thai that biggit the citee of Rome Ib. 172/15.
Citeis and realmes of other mennis 1491 Acta Conc. 188/1.
Ane lande … liand in the citee of Sanctandr[es] Ib.
Johne Litstane, citiner of the said cite a1500 Seven S. 13.
For hir the cite made gret mane 1513 Doug. i. v. 38.
Of Padva the cite Ib. viii. 100.
Into the realm of Sycill als haue we Frendis and citeis 1549 Compl. 11/23.
Al the fayr ande best lyik ȝong vemen of that cite 1561 St. A. Kirk S. 137.
Be frequenting and dayle residence mackeyn in this cite c1590 J. Stewart 40/370.
Brochs, towns, and citeis var beseidged about(b) a1400 Leg. S. xxix. 683.
To cyteis & tonys sere Ib. xxxiii. 220.
Al the folk of ȝone cyte c1420 Wynt. i. 898.
Thar lyis off Damask the cyte Ib. iv. 2504.
All regyownys, Cyteys, castellys, and all townys 1513 Doug. xii. xi. 124.
He … blent to the cyte prest Ib. xiii. x. 95.
O happy cyte, and weil fortunat wall(c) a1400 Leg. S. ix. 28.
To the nexte citte thai cane pase Ib. x. 42.
He … come one case til a citte ?1438 Alex. ii. 3082.
His menȝe, That hes assegit his citte 1450 Reg. Episc. Brechin I. 127.
The inhabitantis of the citte of Brechine 1489 Wemyss Chart. 112.
Thys indentur maide at the citte of Sanctandrois(d) 1535 Stewart 28891.
Into that schire, With euerie scitie that wes neir besyde c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3109.
Tyll his cheif citie he reterit 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 179.
Thair wes ane earth quaik in the cittie of Glasgow a1578 Pitsc. I. 6/2.
Pas thow with diligence To Sanctandrois that fair citie 1611-57 Mure Dido i. 524.
A shaddy groave amidst this citty grew 1657 Rec. Old Aberd. i. 94.
The hundreth merkis … left in legacie … for the vse of the said cittie

b. Attrib. with wall. 1513 Doug. x. ii. 21.
The battellis charge, And governance haill of hys cite wallys