Synonyms for recited


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ri-sahyt
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈsaɪt

Top 10 synonyms for recited Other synonyms for the word recited

Définition 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

Antonyms for recited

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