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e, 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 private preparatory performance of a drama, opera, etc., in costume.

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

Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.

Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.

A rehearsal of a lesson.

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

The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. Hammond.

To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.] He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. Dickens.

Recital from memory; rehearsal.

That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. "The tale of Troy divine." Milton. "In such manner rime is Dante's tale." Chaucer. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.