Recital(n.) The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
Recital(n.) A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
Recital(n.) That which is recited; a story; a narration.
Recital(n.) A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.
Recital(n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation.
Recitation(n.) The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
Recitation(n.) The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.
Recitation(n.) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.
Recitative(a.) Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.
Recitative(n.) A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.
Recite(n.) A recital.
Recite(v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
Recite(v. t.) 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.
Recite(v. t.) To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
Recite(v. t.) To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
Recite(v. t.) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
Recited(imp. & p. p.) of Recite
Reciter(n.) One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.
Reciting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recite
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