recite /ri-sītˈ/

1. To repeat from memory
2. To declaim
3. To read aloud (rare)
4. To narrate
5. To enumerate
6. To give (the details of)
7. To repeat to a teacher, have heard a lesson in (US)

1. To give a recitation
2. To repeat, or have heard, a lesson (N American)

recīˈtable adjective

recīˈtal noun

1. The act of reciting
2. Setting forth
3. Enumeration
4. Narration
5. A public performance of music, usu by one performer or composer, or of some particular character
6. That part of a deed which recites the circumstances (law)

recīˈtalist noun

recitation /res-i-tāˈshən/ noun

1. The act of reciting
2. A piece for declaiming
3. The repeating or hearing of a prepared lesson (N American)
4. Hence a lesson generally (N American)

recitāˈtionist noun

A declaimer

recitative /-tə-tēvˈ/ or recitativo /re-sit-ä-tēˈvō or (Italy) rā-chē-tä-tēˈvō/ noun (pl recitativesˈ, recitatiˈvos or (Italy) recitatiˈvi /-vē/)

1. A style of song resembling speech in its succession of tones and freedom from melodic form
2. A passage to be sung in this manner

In the style of recitative

reciter /ri-sītˈər/ noun

recitāˈtion-room noun (N American)

A classroom

recitˈing-note noun

The note on which, in a Gregorian chant, the greater part of a verse is sung

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