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recite
[ ri-sahyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
to recite a lesson.
- to repeat (a piece of poetry or prose) before an audience, as for entertainment.
- to give an account of:
to recite one's adventures.
- to enumerate.
verb (used without object)
- to recite a lesson or part of a lesson for a teacher.
- to recite or repeat something from memory.
recite
/ rɪˈsaɪt /
verb
- to repeat (a poem, passage, etc) aloud from memory before an audience, teacher, etc
- tr to give a detailed account of
- tr to enumerate (examples, etc)
Derived Forms
- reˈciter, noun
- reˈcitable, adjective
Other Words From
- re·cita·ble adjective
- re·citer noun
- prere·cite verb (used with object) prerecited prereciting
- unre·cited adjective
- well-re·cited adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of recite1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
One man said he was ticketed for drunkenly reciting rap lyrics after leaving work in the middle of the night.
The anxiety scores of women who stayed in Tzfat and recited psalms, on the other hand, were more than 50 percent lower than women who stayed and did not recite psalms.
Other groups recited the words sequentially, with each member reading the words in only one column.
That is, the anxiety scores of women who left Tzfat and recited psalms were only slightly lower than the scores of women who left but did not recite psalms.
Overall, those who remained in Tzfat and recited psalms had lower anxiety scores than those who left.
They sing songs and recite prayers in order to maintain the holy balance of nature between Father Sun and Mother Ocean.
For now, he is using it to recite some of the greatest rap lyrics ever written eight times a week.
Early reports claimed that the armed assailants demanded that everyone present recite the shahada, “Laillhailla Allahu.”
“She chose me to recite a ‘Gedicht,’ a poem,” Friedel told me in 2002, her voice still revealing her pride in that moment.
He could recite reams of Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed.
He wrote the fine poem of “Little Jim,” which everyone knew, and which almost every boy and girl could recite.
As before suggested, let the pupil recite the foregoing ten events forwards and the reverse way several times from memory.
Sosimo asked on behalf of the Roman Catholics that they might be allowed to recite the prayers for the dead.
Suppose that Dunsey came home the night he staked Wildfire, recite the conversation between him and Godfrey.
On New Year's day they recite in the synagogues the record of the binding of Isaac for the same purpose.
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