RECITE

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

4.
v.

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

5.
v.

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

6.
n.

A recital. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

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