cite vs object

cite

verb
  • to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court. 

  • to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. 

  • to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context. 

noun
  • a citation 

object

verb
  • To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection. 

noun
  • A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed. 

  • An instantiation of a class or structure. 

  • An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms). 

  • Objective; goal, end or purpose of something. 

  • A thing that has physical existence but is not alive. 

  • The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action. 

How often have the words cite and object occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )