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subciting

subciting is the present participle and gerund of subcite.

Meaning of subcite

Verb

subcite (third-person singular simple present subcites, present participle subciting, simple past and past participle subcited)

  1. (ambitransitive, Harvard Law School) To review and verify the citations in an legal article.
    • On June 3, the games began. I joined the long line of two hundred 1Ls to pick up the 650-page packet containing the article to be subcited, the information for the case note, and all the relevant cases.1992, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School, Boston, M.A.; London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 62

Questions about subciting

What is subciting the present participle and gerund of?
Subciting is the present participle and gerund of subcite.

Words near subciting in the dictionary

  1. subcited
  2. subciter
  3. subciters
  4. subcites
  5. subcities
  6. subciting
  7. subcitizen
  8. subcitrate
  9. subcitrates
  10. subcity
  11. subcivilization

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