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
- 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
- account for
- address
- answer
- chant
- communicate
- convey
- declaim
- delineate
- deliver
- describe
- detail
- discourse
- dramatize
- enact
- enlarge
- enumerate
- expatiate
- explain
- give a report
- give an account
- give verbal account
- hold forth
- impart
- interpret
- itemize
- mention
- parrot
- perform
- picture
- portray
- quote
- recapitulate
- recount
- reel off
- rehearse
- relate
- render
- repeat
- reply
- report
- retell
- soliloquize
- speak
- state
- tell
- utter
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