Antonyms for recited

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ri-sahyt

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈsaɪt

Definition of recited

Origin : early 15c., from Old French reciter (12c.) and directly from Latin recitare "read aloud, read out, repeat from memory, declaim," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + citare "to summon" (see cite). Related: Recited; reciting.

verb read out loud; narrate

Example sentences :

Because you recited that doggerel about The Run of Crusader.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Neither he nor the men to whom he recited or sang would have understood that mood.
Extract from : « The Book of Old English Ballads » by George Wharton Edwards

He recited poetry badly, but adored hearing it well recited.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

You could have recited the Gettysburg Address and we'd never have known until it returned.
Extract from : « The Second Voice » by Mann Rubin

At Mr. Sheridan's earnest entreaties, I recited some passages from Shakespeare.
Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson

She recited, before the notary, the lesson which it had pleased her son to teach her.
Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola

The Offertory having been recited, the priest uncovered the chalice.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

The genealogies which you have recited to us out of your own annals, Solon, are a mere children's story.
Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato

And all of a sudden he recited some verses of Alfred de Musset.
Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant

Have you, then, already forgotten the verses you recited for me just now?
Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant

Synonyms for recited

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