Meaning of RECITE
| Pronunciation: | | ri'sIt
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [v] repeat aloud from memory; "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day"
- [v] specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug"
- [v] narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"
- [v] recite in elocution
- [v] render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story"
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | declaim, enumerate, itemise, itemize, narrate, recount, retell, spin, tell |
| |
| | See Also: | | count, do, echo, elocute, execute, identify, inform, list, mouth, name, perform, perorate, rattle down, rattle off, re-create, reel off, relate, repeat, rhapsodise, rhapsodize, roll off, say, scan, speak, spell, spiel off, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize, yarn | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
\Re*cite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recited}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Reciting}.] [F. r['e]citer, fr. L. recitare, recitatum;
pref. re- re- + citare to call or name, to cite. See {Cite}.]
1. 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. 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. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
4. (Law) To state in or as a recital. See {Recital}, 5.
Syn: To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe;
recapitulate; detail; number; count.
\Re*cite"\, v. i.
To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience,
something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a
lesson learned.
\Re*cite"\, n.
A recital. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
|
|