Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To repeat or utter aloud (something rehearsed or memorized), especially before an audience.
- transitive v. To relate in detail. See Synonyms at describe.
- transitive v. To list or enumerate.
- intransitive v. To deliver a recitation.
- intransitive v. To repeat lessons prepared or memorized.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience
- v. To list or enumerate something
- v. To deliver a recitation
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive 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.
- transitive v. To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate
- transitive v. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
- transitive v. To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
- intransitive v. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
- n. A recital.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To repeat or say over, as something previously prepared or committed to memory; rehearse the words of; deliver orally: as, to recite the Litany; to recite a poem.
- In music, to deliver in recitative.
- To relate the facts or particulars of; give an account or statement of; tell: as, to recite one's adventures or one's wrongs.
- To repeat or tell over in writing; set down the words or particulars of; rehearse; cite; quote.
- Synonyms Cite, Adduce, etc. (see quote); Rehearse, Reiterate, etc. (see recapitulate); enumerate, detail.
- To make a recitation or rehearsal; rehearse or say over what has been learned: as, to recite in public or in a class.
- n. Recital.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. recite in elocution
- v. repeat aloud from memory
- v. narrate or give a detailed account of
- v. render verbally,
- v. specify individually
Etymologies
Examples
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Bush could decapitate Christianne Amanpour on CNN (though he'd probably prefer to do it on Fox News), and claim he's learned she's part of a sleeper cell and was about to recite a code word - and that would be legal according to Gonzalez, because he was acting as Commander in Chief on the War in Terror.
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As the children variously sing, tap-dance or recite from the works of T. H.
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The constitutional catechism that Supreme Court nominees must recite is a way of taking the temperature, so to speak, of particular constitutional controversies and the degree to which they have reached settlement.
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Helen went to the Royal Academy, but when asked to deliver her report upon the pictures she began to recite from a pale blue volume, O! for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still.
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This is especially true for professors who (1) largely recite from the book; and (2) call on people who don’t know what they’re talking about but keep asking them questions.
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Iqra, "recite," the angel had told him, and thus the stirring opening lines of the Quran -- "the recitation" -- came into being.
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Since these altered texts differ from those still retained in the Missal, choirs which "recite" the texts will do so from the Vatican "Gradual", and not from the Missal.
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I told him I would favour the company with a display of my elocutionary abilities, but purposely withheld the title of the selection which I meant to recite, meaning at the proper time to surprise my hearers.
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Gabriel (or Jibreel) to "recite" the message of Allah (Arabic for God).
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So I thought I'd use my blog to "recite" them as well.
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