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recital|rɪˈsaɪtəl|
Forms: 6 recyghtall, 6–7 recitall, (6 resyt-, recyt-), 6– recital.
[f. recite v. + -al1 5.]
1. a. A rehearsal, account, or description of some thing, fact, or incident; also (esp. in early use), an enumeration or detailed account of a number of things, facts, etc.; a relation of the particulars or details of something.
c1550J. Mardeley (title) A short Resytall of certeine holy Doctours [etc.]. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 43 A laciuious disposed personne, whom the recitall of sins..wyll not staie. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 300 The Antecedent is undeniable, as might be manifested by a recital of the particular Texts. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 110, I shall not make a recital of it now. 1781Cowper Conversat. 313 Some men..give us in recitals of disease A doctor's trouble, but without the fees. 1838Lytton Alice ii. v, Caroline's lively recital of their adventures was received with much interest. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 322 At the recital of a noble action..they would suffuse with tears.
b. A discourse, account, relation, narrative.
a1565J. Heywood Wit & Folly (Percy Soc.) 5 The sotts pleaseure in this last aquyghtall Cownterwayleth his payne, in yowr fyrst recyghtall. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 841 Who is able to recite all..the studies of the Church, in a verie large discourse, much lesse in this short recitall? 1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 163 In their Narrations they engage us to follow them by the insensible bond of an agreeable and natural recital. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. viii. 168 This recital struck our..auditors with astonishment. 1791Cowper Iliad ix. 742 That dread recital roused him. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 219, I cannot finish this recital without saying one word about my men.
c. Without article: Narration. rare.
1771Mackenzie Man Feel. xl, Peter came one morning into his master's room with a meaning face of recital. 1772― Man World ii. xi, Those short letters of recital, which I was obliged to write to Sir Thomas.
d. An occasion of narrating or rehearsing.
1842J. Wilson Chr. North II. 287 Some old tragic event that gathered a deeper interest from every recital.
2. spec. The rehearsal or statement in a formal or legal document of some fact or facts closely connected with the matter or purpose of the document itself; the part containing this statement.
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 13 Any recytall or other matter in thys Acte..notwithstandyng. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 354 Neither do the Patents..proue that by the Patent they were made, but the recitall do of the Creation. 1687Assur. Abb. Lands 44 In this Bull are the fullest Recitals of the Pope's dispensing Power, that I have yet met with. 1774Burke Sp. Amer. Tax. Wks. 1842 I. 156 All you suffer is the purging the statute-book of the opprobrium of an empty, absurd, and false recital. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 168 The particular recital prefixed, by way of preamble, to this very clause. 1891Law Times XCII. 107/1 The titles and recitals of both the [Acts]..show them to be Real Property Acts.
Comb.1834T. Martin (title) The Conveyancer's Recital-book.
3. a. An (or the) act of († reading or) reciting.
1612T. Wilson Chr. Dict. s.v. Read, Reading is nothing else, but such a recitall and speaking forth the letters and sillibles. 1724Waterland Athan. Creed vi. Wks. 1823 IV. 231 From this time..I presume, the Athanasian Creed has been honoured with a public recital. 1863Sat. Rev. 11 July 58 The recital of the poems revealed an entirely new talent. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 121 [A] dialogue, combining with the mere recital of the words spoken, the observations of the reciter.
b. Music. A musical (esp. only instrumental) performance given by one person. Also, a concert consisting of selections from one composer, and in wider sense, a performance of instrumental music or of music and songs, freq. from the works of several composers. opera recital, a performance of the music and words of an opera without appropriate costume or acting.
The use of the word in quots. 1840, to which its present currency is due, is attributed to Mr. F. Beale. The term is now applied to the whole performance, not to the rendering of each separate piece.
1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Recital, formerly the general name for any performance with a single voice. But at present only applied to recitative. 1840John Bull 31 May 1 Liszt's Pianoforte Recitals. M. Liszt will give at Two o'clock on Tuesday morning, June 9, Recitals on the Pianoforte. Ibid. 7 June 3 On Wednesday evening..M. Liszt will also give a recital of one of his great fantasias. 1867Musical Times 1 June 74/1 Mr. Walter Macfarren gave the first of a series of three Pianoforte recitals..on the 18th ult. 1929Radio Times 8 Nov. 417/2 A Recital of Gramophone Records. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 19 New York City boasts of many fine museums, art galleries, and recital halls. 1981Early Music News Mar. 2 Gillian Weir..will give a joint harpsichord and organ recital, conceived as a salute to Couperin and Bach.
4. A repetition; a quotation. rare—1.
1790Paley Horæ Paul. i. 4 If it should be objected that this was a mere recital from the Gospel [etc.].
Hence reˈcitalist, one who gives musical recitals.
1889Pall Mall G. 22 May 6/1 Our ‘vocalists’ seem as chary as our ‘recitalists’ are prodigal of their talents. 1897Scotsman 31 Mar. 8/7 Mr. Benda..is not altogether unknown as a recitalist in Edinburgh. |