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▪ I. † reˈhearse, n. Obs.
Forms: 4–6 reherse, 5–6 Sc. rehers(s, 5 Sc. raherss, -hress, 6 rehears, Sc. -heirs, 6–7 rehearse.
[f. the vb.]
1. = rehearsal 1. (Chiefly Sc.)
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Mary Egypt) 137 Þai..passyt, singand, with reherse of þe todyr nocturne þe firste verse. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. cxxvii, I haue wele herd, and vnderstond, Be thy reherse, the matere of thy gref. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 95 With out raherss off actioun in that tid. Ibid. xi. 1134 Litill reherss is our mekill off cair. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 251 Quhen this rehers befoir the paip wes maid. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. vii. 7 A briefe rehearse of the foundation, force, and situation of the citie of Alger. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Recordum, The rehearse, reporte, or testification of the execution of the summondes.
2. = rehearsal 2.
1490Coventry Acc. in Sharp Diss. Cov. Myst. (1825) 15 This is the expens of the furste reherse of our players in ester weke. 1584Ibid. 64 Payd ffor ffyve Reherses..vs.
▪ II. rehearse, v.|rɪˈhɜːs|
Forms: 4–6 reherce, (5 -cy), rehers, (5–6 Sc. rahers), 4–7 reherse, (5 rey-); 6 Sc. reheirs, -heirce; 6 rehearce, 6– rehearse.
[a. OF. rehercer, -cier (late AF. rehearser), app. f. re- re- + hercer, herser to harrow: see herse n.]
1. a. trans. To recite or repeat aloud in a formal manner; to say over, or read aloud, from beginning to end.
c1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B) 152 Þi pater noster reherce alwaie, til deken or prest þo gospel rede. c1400in Rule St. Benet 143 Þe couent..sall reherce þe same again thrise, and ‘Gloria patri’. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 18 After the gospel to..reherse John Barettys name opynly, saying De profundis for me. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 172/1 If we knew them in such wise..as we coulde rehearce them on oure fingers endes. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. ii. 404 First, rehearse this song by roate, To each word a warbling note. 1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 37 Rehearse them Actively and Passively together. 1635F. White Sabbath (ed. 2) 9 Often rehearsing the Lord's-Prayer. 1732Neal Hist. Purit. I. 255 He could readily rehearse in the Greek language all St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans and Galatians. 1781Cowper Conversat. 7, Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse. 1784― Task vi. 480 An ancient..tale, By one of sound intelligence rehearsed. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 391 The same composition may be rehearsed in a quicker or a slower time. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 102 Personal histories..which had been rehearsing to those that sat next the narrators.
b. To repeat, say over again (something previously said or heard).
1340Ayenb. 220 Þerof anoþre time we habbeþ yspeke..an þeruore hit ne behoueþ naȝt to reherci. c1386Chaucer Prol. 729 Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge. 1411Rolls of Parlt. III. 650/2 The forsaid Robert schal reherce the wordes that he said to oure forsaide liege Lord. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon x. 265 The proverbe may well be reherced for a trouth, that sayth, Often happeth evill for a good torne. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xlii. 1 Rehearse not a thinge twyse, and disclose not the wordes, that thou hast herde in secrete. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 28 In the Actes of the Apostles, whence no doubt this is rehearsed. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 110 When these words were rehearsed to the Generall, he was mad with anger. a1704T. Brown Dk. of Ormond's Recovery Wks. 1730 I. 48 The clifts and hills my echo'd thoughts rehearse. 1822B. Cornwall Poems, To the singer Pasta, The critic brings thee praise, which all rehearse. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 159 Cephalus rehearses a dialogue which is supposed to have been narrated..by Antiphon.
†c. To say, utter, speak. Obs.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iv. 134 Whon Resun to þis Reynkes Rehersede þeose wordes [etc.]. c1400Rule St. Benet 887 On þe last day Sal he reherce & sai vs til: ‘Þus did þou, & I held me stil’. 1513Douglas æneis i. ix. 93 Rehersing this, convoyis sche Eneas Towart the place. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §151 (1877) 100 Yf you have any more to saye, reherse it, and I voll answere you. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 84 Thir wordis to hir he did reheirs, Haill Marie full of grace, The Lord God is with the.
d. Psychol. To repeat, either mentally or orally (what it is desired to keep temporarily in the memory).
1917Arch. Psychol. xl. 103 Frequent reviews..throw into relief the portions [of memorised material] that are hazy, inexact and confused..because they fix more clearly in mind the material that is rehearsed. 1964Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. LXVIII. 414/2 The present experiment is designed to investigate the consequences for short-term memory of instructing Ss to rehearse a sequence of digits in groups of one, two, three, four, and five during presentation. 1979W. A. Wickelgren Cognitive Psychol. iii. 84 Time yourself reciting the alphabet verbally. Then time yourself while you go through the alphabet again, this time imaging each letter as if it were projected on a screen. It will take you about three times as long..as it did to rehearse each letter verbally.
2. a. To give an account of; to relate, narrate, recount, describe at length. Now rare.
13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1147 The tresoun he gan hem alle reherse. a1400–50Alexander 21, I sall rehers..A remnant of his rialte. 1435Indenture Fotheringhey in Dugdale Monast. (1846) VI. 1415/1 When alle the werk abof written, rehersyd and devised is fully fynisht. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 140 b/2 First we shal reherce here the birthe and begynnyng of Iudas. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xlvi. 154 Thou hast so myche to suffer, that therein is none humayne tonge can reherse it. 1577T. Vautrollier Lutheron Ep. Gal. 2 There is yet an other righteousnes,..the which we must diligently discerne from the other afore rehearsed. 1620J. Wilkinson Coroners & Sherifes 2 The cause of his not attendance or insufficiencie must be rehearsed. 1712Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 122 But now your last and blackest deed What mortal can rehearse? 1781Cowper Table T. 178 Could you..rehearse The mighty plan, oracular, in verse. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. iii. Nativity, First of all we shall rehearse..The Nativity of our Lord.
†b. To relate, state, declare, how, that, what, etc. Obs.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 177 What [B how] þou dudest day bi day þe Doom þe wol rehersen. Ibid. 186 Þat..Dowel reherce Þat..we duden as he us hiȝte. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 83, I shall reherse what thys creature Eolus hath doon to me. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 1559 Bede reherce[s] þat som boke sayes [etc.]. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. iii. in Ashm. (1652) 42 Chaucer reherseth how Titanos is the same. 1539Bible (Great) Mark iv. 15 Some be rehearsed to be by the way side. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xv. 15 b, There was openly rehearsed, how that..the Turkes army hadd taken..the castle. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Peace vi, They that taste it do rehearse, That vertue lies therein.
c. With omission of direct object, usually after as.
13..K. Alis. 1664 Herde ye havith, Y wol yow reherce, How messangeris comen from Perce. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 315 For, as reson and rith rehersid to me ones [etc.]. c1410Hoccleve Mother of God 125 Right in this wyse, as I reherce can. c1470Henry Wallace v. 124 I bott rahers as my autour will say. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 1696 As efterward, perchance, rehears I sall. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 70 Lufe is fulfilling of the Law, as Paull reheirsis in his writ. 1781Cowper Charity 505 Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair.
3. a. To recount in order; to name or mention one after another; to enumerate, reckon up, † number.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 22 Heore nomes bed neodful, and nempnen hem I þenke, Bi Rule and bi Resun Rehersen hem her-aftur. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 21 Here I write and reherse þe auctours names of þe whiche þis cronycle is..i-gadered. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1518 Whos names reherse I wyll, as I can Bryng theym to mynde in ordre. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. viii. 45 Yrland and Scotland and moo reames than I will now reherce. 1532Elyot in Gov. (1883) I. Life 77, I will reherce some other townes as they laye in oure waye. c1580Sidney Ps. xxii. xi, My bones might be rehearsed. 1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) p. ii, I will first rehearse all the seven marks which Socrates giveth. 16..in Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. (1655) 80 In all cases afore rehearsed, the Spiritual Judg shall have power [etc.]. 1738Gray Propertius iii. 1 You ask, why thus my Loves I still rehearse. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 598, I will rehearse the captains and their fleets. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 320 Rehearsing exclusively the mercies of God to Israel.
†b. To mention, make mention of (a person or thing); to cite, quote. Obs.
a1400–50Alexander 329 Noȝt as a prophet ne a prest I prays sall þi selfe, Bot rehers þe as hieȝe gode. c1402Lydg. Compl. Bl. Knt. 99 But this welle, that I here reherce, So hoolsom was that it wolde aswage Bollen hertes. 1471Will of T. Clement, I woll be a brother of the Gray freres and be reherced by name. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Cor. 55 For this rehearse I the ready mindes of the Macedonians. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 101 b, As Plini whome I haue aboue rehersed, teacheth there ryght playnly. 1578[see rehearsed ppl. a.].
†4. intr. To give an account, or make mention, of something. Obs. rare.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour E viij b, Of the whiche yf I wold I should reherce you of many of them. c1500Lancelot 2671 Of his manhed war merwell to rahers. 1549Compl. Scot. Ded. 7 The historigraphours rehersis of ane pure man of perse.
5. a. trans. To go through or practise (a play, scene, part, etc.) in private, in preparation for a more formal or public performance.
1579–80[see rehearsal 2]. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 75 Sit downe..and rehearse your parts. Ibid. iii. ii. 11 A crew of patches..Were met together to rehearse a Play, Intended for great Theseus nuptiall day. 1728Gay in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 95 Rich received the duke of Grafton's commands not to rehearse any new play whatsoever, till his grace hath seen it. 1765Goldsm. Ess. vi. Wks. (Globe) 304/2, I..studied the character, which was to be rehearsed the next day. 1820Shelley Œd. Tyr. ii. ii. 72, I have rehearsed the entire scene, With an ox-bladder and some ditch⁓water. 1865J. Hatton Bitter Sweets xxxii, Let us rehearse a waltz.
fig.1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 83 The habit of rehearsing virtues in imagination leads us insensibly to practise them in reality.
b. To exercise, train, or make proficient by rehearsal.
1768[W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull I. ii. 13 To prepare himself for the change, he had rehears'd his servants in the alteration. 1795S. Rogers Words Mrs. Siddons 58 And, when her shattered nerves forbid to roam, In very spleen—rehearse the girls at home. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities iii. xii, A wood-sawyer..has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen Her..making signs and signals to prisoners. 1898Daily News 12 Mar. 6/3 Dickens rehearsed her in ‘Bailey’.
6. To perform, practise, as in rehearsing. rare.
1700Dryden Cock & Fox 337 Sometimes we but rehearse a former Play, The Night restores our Actions done by Day. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 307 The poor ignorant multitude..rehearsed all the outrages that were acted in our own times by the Parisian populace. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xvii. 212 So he kept on rehearsing his limited solfeggio..and crying and talking by turns.
7. intr. To recite; to engage in rehearsal.
1693C. Dryden in Dryden's Juvenal vii. 107 All Rome is pleas'd, when Statius will rehearse, And longing Crowds expect the promis'd Verse. 1739Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 150 When it came to my turn to rehearse, while others read their parts from their books, I had put mine in my pocket. 1765Goldsm. Ess. vi. Wks. (Globe) 304/2 We got together, in order to rehearse. Ibid. 305/1, I rehearsed before them. 1819Shelley Peter Bell 3rd vii. xi, Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with his dulness was he cursed. 1886Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman viii, She was perpetually rehearsing to him. 1951S. S. Stevens Handbk. Exper. Psychol. xvii. 654/1, 84 per cent of her younger subjects and 70 per cent of the older ones reported that they had rehearsed in the interval between learning and recall. 1976G. R. & E. F. Loftus Human Memory iv. 56 Rehearsal can do two things: it can keep the information in short-term store for as long as we continue rehearsing, and it can also act as a mechanism by which information is transferred from short-term to long-term store.
Hence reˈhearsed ppl. a., † (a) (also with afore) foresaid, afore-mentioned; (b) that has been practised beforehand.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 148 b, The trouble and noyse of these rehersed people is so great. 1544Exhort. vnto Prayer A viij, Let vs eschewe in our prayers al the afore rehersed vyces. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 26 The Cannell bones fastened to the rehearsed Processe named Acromion. 1871L. W. M. Lockhart Fair to See I. vi. 167 He turned to confront them, on their entrance, with a carefully rehearsed mien. |