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verb

Recite v. t. (past & past part. recited; pres. part. reciting)

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.

To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.

To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

(Law) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.

Synonyms: To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate; detail; number; count.

Recite v. i. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.

noun

Recite n. A recital. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recite" Quotes from Famous Books

... unusually inept. The only strange taste evinced by him was his devotion to theatricals. He would hold forth, by the hour, upon the fine conception of such parts as Macbeth, Othello and, especially, Romeo. Many ladies and gentlemen were privileged to hear him recite, in this or that drawing-room, after supper. All testified to the real fire with which he inflamed the lines of love or hatred. His voice, his gesture, his scholarship, were all approved. A fine ...

— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm

... for one's children to cultivate," laughed the captain. Then consulting his watch, "But it is high time we were in the schoolroom, daughters. Elsie and Ned have been there this half hour, and probably have a lesson or two ready to recite." ...

— Elsie at Home • Martha Finley

... Permouka Berdjadjar, and by her had two sons, Radja Kitchil Mainbang and Radja Makat. He reigned for a certain time, when one night he dreamed that he was in the presence of the glorious prophet of God, on whom be blessings! And the prophet said to him, "Recite the words of the creed." And Radja Kitchil Bessar ...

— Malayan Literature • Various Authors

... stimulus of her present responsibility, her voice and manner reverted to their earlier pedagogical precision. As she rapped the assembly to order, she had every appearance of a teacher calling on the A-class to recite. ...

— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... him in this plight, And makes a tepid fountain of his eyes; And, what I deem not needful to recite, Pours forth yet other plaints and piteous cries; Propitious Fortune will his lady bright Should hear the youth lament him in such wise: And thus a moment compassed what, without Such chance, long ages ...

— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

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