To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. Chaucer. When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul. 1 Sam. xvii. 31.
To narrate; to relate; to tell. Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. Judg. . v. 11.
To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.] He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. Dickens.
To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse." Shak.
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