'Recite' definitions:
Definition of 'recite'
From: WordNet
verb
Recite in elocution [syn: declaim, recite]
verb
Repeat aloud from memory; "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day"
verb
Render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn: recite, retell]
verb
Narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite]
verb
Definition of 'Recite'
From: GCIDE
- Recite \Re*cite"\, v. i. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Recite'
From: GCIDE
- Recite \Re*cite"\, n. A recital. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Recite'
From: GCIDE
- Recite \Re*cite"\ (r[-e]*s[imac]t"), 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate; detail; number; count. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'recite'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- add up,
- affirm,
- allege,
- allegorize,
- assert,
- asseverate,
- aver,
- battologize,
- cast up,
- chronicle,
- cipher up,
- commit to memory,
- con,
- count,
- count up,
- debate,
- declaim,
- declare,
- demagogue,
- describe,
- detail,
- elocute,
- enumerate,
- fable,
- fabulize,
- fictionalize,
- figure up,
- fill,
- foot up,
- get by heart,
- get letter-perfect,
- give an encore,
- go over,
- go through,
- harangue,
- have by heart,
- hold forth,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- iterate,
- know by heart,
- learn by heart,
- learn verbatim,
- list,
- memorize,
- mouth,
- mythicize,
- mythify,
- mythologize,
- narrate,
- novelize,
- number,
- nuncupate,
- orate,
- out-herod Herod,
- pad,
- parrot,
- perorate,
- practice,
- present,
- proclaim,
- quote,
- rabble-rouse,
- rant,
- read,
- reaffirm,
- reassert,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reckon up,
- recount,
- rehash,
- rehearse,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- relate,
- repeat,
- repeat by heart,
- report,
- reprint,
- restate,
- resume,
- retail,
- retell,
- review,
- reword,
- rodomontade,
- romance,
- run over,
- say over,
- say over again,
- score up,
- share,
- spiel,
- spout,
- state,
- storify,
- study,
- sum,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summate,
- swot up,
- tally up,
- tautologize,
- tell,
- tell a story,
- tot up,
- total,
- total up,
- tote up,
- tub-thump,
- unfold a tale