citi

a. 1. Belonging to, or resembling, a city. “Smoky, citied towns” [ R. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Containing, or covered with, cities. [ R. ] “The citied earth.” Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ City +-fy. ] Aping, or having, the manners of a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. citus swift (p. p. of cire, ciere, to move) + gradi to walk. See Cite. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. citigrade. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the Citigradæ. -- n. One of the Citigradæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [ Obs. ] Champan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen, fr. cité city. See City, and cf. Cit. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. Abbot [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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 status from such country. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not well,
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female citizen. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]