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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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Etymology of 'Recite'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recite" Quotes from Famous Books

... me, for feats useful to the kingdom of Darkness. For what is Tobacco but one of my meanest instruments, to carry bewilderment into the brain? And what is the kingdom of Mammon, but a branch of my vast domain? Yea, if I were to recite the ties which I have on the subjects of Mammon and Pride—yea, and on the subjects of Asmodeus, Belphegor, and Hypocrisy—no man would tarry a minute longer under the rule of one of them. ...

— The Sleeping Bard - or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell • Ellis Wynne

... organ sufficient to perform the services of the Church," and "the art of instructing the young in the German language" (R. 275, a sec 1). So long as the instruction in the vernacular school consisted chiefly of reading and the Catechism, and of hearing pupils recite what they had memorized, there was of course but little need for any special training for the teachers. It was not until after Pestalozzi had done his work and made his contribution that there was anything worth mentioning ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... stretcher audience that he had. That means a lot of boys who had to lie in bed to hear him. They needed cheering. And that great actor, with all his good intentions could think of nothing more fitting than to stand up before them and begin to recite, in a sad, elocutionary tone, Longfellow's ...

— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder

... therefore often the most successful, recitations are those which recite themselves; that is, recitations so charged with the picturesque or the dramatic elements that they command attention and excite interest in spite of poor elocution and even bad delivery. The trouble with these is that they are usually soon recognized, and once recognized ...

— Successful Recitations • Various

... winch—a device which had been known to hoist with a jerk objects several tons heavier than Herr August Carl von Staden! This picture thus conjured in Murphy's imagination was so real he was almost tempted to recite ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

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