recitaln.
/rᵻˈsʌɪtl/, U.S. /rəˈsaɪdl/, /riˈsaɪdl/ 1. Law. The statement in a legal document that gives factual information relevant to the content or purpose of the document; the part of a legal document containing this statement.
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society > law > legal document > [noun] > paragraph or clause > recital
recital1512
rehearsal1628
recitement1766
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 13 Any recytall or other matter in thys Acte..notwithstandyng.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 354 Neither do the Patents..proue that by the Patent they were made, but the recitall do of the Creation.
1648 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1704) III. xi. 165 A recital in a new Law, which was not a Declaratory Law of what the Law was formerly in being.
1687 N. Johnston Assurance Abby & Church-lands 44 In this Bull are the fullest Recitals of the Pope's dispensing Power, that I have yet met with.
1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 7 All you suffer is the purging the Statute-book of the opprobrium of an empty, absurd, and false recital.
1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 168 The particular recital prefixed, by way of preamble, to this very clause.
1891 Law Times 92 107/1 The titles and recitals of both the [Acts]..show them to be Real Property Acts.
1958 Jrnl. of Afr. Law 2 188 The grant..of a declaration of title... The title was based on a recital in a deed of 1923.
1990 F. A. R. Bennion Statute Law (ed. 3) ix. 126 A recital has the same function as a preamble, but is confined to a single section or other textual unit.
2.
a. An account or detailed description of a fact, incident, etc.; a relating of a series of connected facts or events. Also (esp. in early use): an enumeration of a number of items, facts, etc.; a catalogue.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account > an account of something
speecha1387
recitalc1550
narrative1571
c1550 J. Mardeley (title) A short resytall of certeine holy doctours [etc.].
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. D.iiii A laciuious disposed personne, whom the recitall of sins..wyll not staie.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 300 The Antecedent is undeniable, as might be manifested by a recital of the particular Texts.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 110 I shall not make a recital of it now.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 228 Some men..give us in recitals of disease A doctor's trouble, but without the fees.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. v. 178 Caroline's lively recital of their adventures was received with much interest.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 322 At the recital of a noble action..they would suffuse with tears.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxv. 331 He had no time to continue with this train of thought, for Lawson poured out a frank recital of his affair with Ruth Chalice.
1959 B. Joseph Tragic Actor vi. 274 Kean as Shylock..hurried on through his recital of complaints against Antonio.
1994 Queen's Q. Fall 567 He tells his readers, after a blow-by-blow recital of the 1966–67 period, that following ‘much anguish and heartbreak the magazine survived’.
b. An account, a narrative, a discourse.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account
talec1200
historyc1230
sawc1320
tellinga1325
treatisec1374
chroniclec1380
process?1387
legendc1390
prosec1390
pistlec1395
treatc1400
relationc1425
rehearsal?a1439
report?a1439
narrationc1449
recorda1450
count1477
redec1480
story1489
recount1490
deductiona1532
repetition1533
narrative1539
discourse1546
account1561
recital1561
enarrative1575
legendary1577
enarration1592
recite1594
repeat1609
texture1611
recitation1614
rendera1616
prospect1625
recitement1646
tell1743
diegesis1829
récit1915
narrative line1953
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. xiv. f. 91 By thys shorte recitall the readers that haue their sounde witte maye gather, that..the hope of saluation is vtterly extinguished.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. i. sig. Bbbbviiiv/1 Who..is able to recite all..the studies of the church, in a very large discourse, much lesse in this short recitall?
1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 163 In their Narrations they engage us to follow them by the insensible bond of an agreeable and natural recital.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 168 This recital struck our..auditors with astonishment.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ix. 742 That dread recital roused him.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 219 I cannot finish this recital without saying one word about my men.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 136 It was a strange recital for the girl. She heard it..and, suddenly, with a curt handshake, took her departure.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 384/1 During this recital the patient vividly relived the episode with emotional outpouring finally hurling himself at the wall.
1990 J. Fane Best Friends 12 An acquaintance..paused in the middle of some long-winded recital to ask him: ‘Am I boring you?’—to which he replied: ‘Not yet?’
c. The process of narrating or reciting; narration, explication.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun]
spellc888
talec1000
telling?c1225
relationc1390
fablec1400
collationc1430
deliverance1431
narrationc1449
exposition1460
recounting1485
deducing1530
recital1565
delivery1592
reporting1603
retailing1609
recountmenta1616
narrative1748
narrating1802
deducement1820
recountal1825
retailment1832
1565 T. Stapleton Disc. Doctr. Protestants in tr. F. Staphylus Apol. f. 161v This heresy they lerned of Simon Magus,..of the Manichees, of Petrus Abailhardus... The allegations..we note only at this present, without recitall at large, to auoide prolixite.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. ix. 302/2 With Ella raigned the two sonnes of Ida,..with three others..: but because there is no other mention of them.., I will leaue as I finde them, and proceed to the more worthy of recitall.
1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xl Peter came one morning into his master's room with a meaning face of recital.
1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World ii. xi Those short letters of recital, which I was obliged to write to Sir Thomas.
1835 W. Irving Crayon Misc. I. Introd. p.xiv The public..take sufficient interest in my wanderings to deem them worthy of recital.
1889 W. H. Herndon & J. W. Weik Herndon's Lincoln II. x. 310 In the role of a storyteller... His power of mimicry,..and his manner of recital, were in many respects unique.
1914 H. James Notes on Novelists iii. 277 His volume sets in motion..a drama in which his own system and his combined eccentricities of recital represent the protagonist in face of powers leagued against it.
1963 J. Thompson Grifters xiii. 86 Seemingly, she was speaking of the abstract, a dull and tenuous theorem scarcely worthy of recital.
1996 J. F. Moffitt & S. Sebastián O Brave New People v. 317 Their achievements in such adverse conditions are certainly worthy of recital alongside the greatest moments known in the history of mankind.
d. An act of narrating or relating something.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > an occasion of
recital1798
1798 Adherence Missionary Soc. Glasgow Defended 50 We would have fondly hoped, that although this report might not be altogether unfounded, yet that..it had received additional matter, or a different colouring at every recital.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North II. 287 Some old tragic event that gathered a deeper interest from every recital.
1891 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 4 60 Conjurers, dreamers and other dangerous persons have multiplied stories and marvels, growing greater with each recital.
1946 J. M. Cox Journey through my Years xxxiv. 418 Silly rumors were hashed and rehashed and their silliness and falsehood grew with each recital.
1991 P. W. Black in K. Avruch et al. Confl. Resol. vii. 154 Three times he carefully and with exhaustive detail described the events that had led up to the meeting. After each recital he paused.
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a. The action or process of reading aloud or repeating from memory a poem, passage, prayer, etc., esp. before an audience; an instance of this. Cf. poetry recital n. at poetry n. Compounds 2.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > an act of or recital
sayingc1390
recital1567
recitation1618
spout1832
recite1885
1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs viii. f. 78v I haue welnie forgot The rest, perhaps recitall of the former Uerse will not Be hurtfull, but reduce to minde what I had thought to say.
1588 J. Penry Def. Ignorant Ministerie 26 They can ad an edifying worde vnto the sacrament: if the recitall of the wordes of institution be an edifying worde, and that be sufficient to make a sacrament.
1612 T. Wilson Christian Dict. at Read Reading is nothing else, but such a recitall and speaking forth the letters and sillibles.
1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 712 There is a customary recital of prayers, and as customary an unconcernment in them.
1724 D. Waterland Crit. Hist. Athanasian Creed iv. 90 From this Time..I presume, the Athanasian Creed has been honoured with a publick Recital.
1832 J. Henderson Observ. on Colonies New S. Wales 161 After a child has been taught..to repeat a series of prayers, it..requires during the act of recital, a very considerable effort of the mind, to direct it to the subject recited.
1863 Sat. Rev. 11 July 58 The recital of the poems revealed an entirely new talent.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 121 [A] dialogue, combining with the mere recital of the words spoken, the observations of the reciter.
1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. ix. 174 The concluding section..comprises the singing of another hymn and a psalm, the recital of the ten Commandments and Thirteen Principles of Faith, and the reading of two stories.
1982 A. Gould & D. Siegel Unorthodox Bk. Jewish Records & Lists (1989) vii. 87 The modern record for the fastest recital of the Shacharit service was set at Congregation Beth David of Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 9, 1989: 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
2007 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 27 Dec. (Features section) 7 The festival, which examines Liverpool's shipping history through literature, will also feature readings, poetry recitals and workshops.
b. A performance of a single musical piece or esp. a selection of music (in earlier use only from one composer) by a soloist or a small group; a similar performance of dance or (occasionally) drama. Also (more fully opera recital): a performance of the music and words of an opera without appropriate costume or acting.concert, gramophone, organ, piano recital, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of
Philharmonic concert1740
benefit-concert1759
chamber concert1760
recital1762
Dutch concert1774
concert performance1777
philharmonica1796
musical soirée1821
sacred concert1832
soirée musicale1836
promenade concert1839
pianoforte recital1840
ballad concert1855
piano recital1855
Monday pop1862
Pop1862
promenade1864
popular1865
Schubertiad1869
recitative1873
organ recital1877
pop concert1880
smoker1887
smoke concert1888
café concert1891
prom1902
smoke-ho1918
smoking-concert1934
hootenanny1940
opry1940
Liederabend1958
1762 T. Francklin et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. XIV. 262 Such a variety of fine performances: and yet amongst these recitals, which our excessive severity condems, how many beauties do I regret the loss of!
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Recital, formerly the general name for any performance with a single voice. But at present only applied to recitative.
1840 John Bull 31 May 1 Liszt's Pianoforte Recitals. M. Liszt will give at Two o'clock on Tuesday morning, June 9, Recitals on the Pianoforte.
1840 John Bull 7 June 3 On Wednesday evening..M. Liszt will also give a recital of one of his great fantasias.
1867 Musical Times June 74/1 Mr. Walter Macfarren gave the first of a series of three Pianoforte recitals..on the 18th ult.
1916 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 9 Apr. 2 m/2 Besides the opera recital of the Atlanta Musical Study club, there have been a number of parlor recitals.
1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 417/2 A Recital of Gramophone Records.
1948 A. L. Haskell Ballet Ann. 94 (caption) The brilliant Indian dancer who gave two private recitals in London last year for the Sadler's Wells School and Theatre Ballet, and for the R.A.D. Production Club.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 19 New York City boasts of many fine museums, art galleries, and recital halls.
1995 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 24 Oct. 3 d Russian violinist Gidon Kremer almost had to cancel his Sunday-night recital after his pianist fell ill.
4. A repetition; a quotation. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > documentary evidence > [noun] > use of
allegation1535
citation1538
quotation1646
citing1699
recital1790
1607 A. Willet Loidoromastix xi. vi. 156 In the same recitall of Bernard, hee cutteth off a long period..: for after those words, who could persist in it without him, followeth this sentence: omne gaudium existimemus, &c.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 4 If it should be objected that this was a mere recital from the Gospel [etc.].
1862 P. M. Irving Life & Lett. W. Irving (1864) I. viii. 134 The following recital from the journal will show at what expense of personal convenience he could sometimes resist imposition.
1919 Times 25 Sept. 11/4 The official assurances so freely circulated do not command acceptance. One such recital from an official source appears in our columns to-day.
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1833 Legal Observer 440/2 The pupil is commonly assisted..by a MS. selection of forms of recitals, denominated a ‘recital book’.
1834 T. Martin (title) The conveyancer's recital-book.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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