Definition of recite
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to
narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a
voyage.
- v. t. - To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
- v. t. - To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
- v. i. - To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an
audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a
lesson learned.
- n. - A recital.