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To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.

The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise. Chaucer. In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer. Hooker. Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal. Shak. Dress rehearsal (Theater), a priv…

to tell over again; to recite. Chaucer. When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul. 1 Sam. xvii. 31.

One who rehearses.

To hear beforehand.

The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

To rehearse or quote incorrectly. Sir T. More.

lication for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.

A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

f persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

orical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft.

Rehearsing a word as declined.

To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.

Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.

nd fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. [Obs.] Chapman. When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing. Tyndale.

A rehearsal of a lesson.

To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.

The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.