Recite
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.
To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
A recital.
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Recite Quotations
When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.
Ryan Reynolds
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Carol Ann Duffy
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
Recite Translations
recite in Danish is recitere
recite in Dutch is voordragen, declameren
recite in German is vortragen
recite in Latin is reddo, recito
recite in Spanish is declamar, recitar
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