recitev.

Brit.

/rᵻˈsʌɪt/, U.S.

/rəˈsaɪt/,

/riˈsaɪt/

Forms:

α. late Middle English–1500s resyte, late Middle English–1600s resite, 1500s rescite, 1500s resighte, 1500s resyght, 1500s resytted (past participle), 1500s rezite, 1500s rezyt, 1500s rezyte, 1500s–1600s resight; Scottish pre-1700 resyite, pre-1700 resyte.

β. late Middle English–1600s recyte, late Middle English– recite, 1500s–1600s receite, 1500s–1600s receyte; Scottish pre-1700 receit, pre-1700 receite, pre-1700 recitt, pre-1700 recyte, pre-1700 1700s– recite; N.E.D. (1904) also records a form 1500s receat (Scottish).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French receiter, reciter; Latin recitāre.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman receiter, receitter, Anglo-Norman and Middle French reciter (French réciter ) to read (a text) aloud (c1150 in Old French), to narrate, relate, report (1214 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), to tell (of something) (mid 14th cent.), to enumerate, to give a list or catalogue of (c1370), to cite or quote (a text or passage) (beginning of the 15th cent.), to mention or speak of (a person or thing) (first half of the 15th cent.), to give an account, to tell a story (1484 in the source translated in quot. 1484 at sense 3b, or earlier), to repeat (a text) from memory (1530), in Anglo-Norman also to state (a relevant fact) in a legal document (early 14th cent. or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin recitāre to read out or repeat aloud, to recite (literary works) especially before an audience, in post-classical Latin also to give an account of (frequently from a1109 in British sources), to cite, quote (c1324 in a British source in recitare male to misquote) < re- re- prefix + citāre cite v. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan recitar (end of the 13th cent.), Catalan recitar (1272), Spanish recitar (mid 13th cent.), Italian recitare (late 13th cent.; 13th cent. as †recetare).In to recite of (see sense 3c) after Middle French reciter de (mid 14th cent.).

1. transitive. Law. To state (a relevant fact) in a deed or other legal document. Also with clause as object.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal document > [verb (transitive)] > state in legal document

recite1430

1430–1 Rolls of Parl. IV. 376/1 That ye Juges..make oute a remembrance..resityng ye issue yat is joyned in ye same ple of bastardie.

1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §36. m. 20 Recityng by the same among other, that where among certeyn liberties and privileges [etc.].

1532 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 31 Reciting that by a deed bipartite he had enfeoffed [etc.].

1680 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 78 The liberty of printeing by long usage, and..granted by charter till the time of K. Charles y^e 1^st, whose grant recites the sayd usage.

1723 Act 9 Geo. I c. 24 §8 All Papists..shall..make and subscribe the Declaration called the Formula, as the same is recited in an Act of Parliament of Scotland [of 1700].

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxi. 358 The subsequent proceedings are made up into a record or recovery roll, in which the writ and complaint of the defendant are first recited.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 431 John Ivy in the beginning of his will recited that he had made a former will in the life of his wife.

1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. i. 13 The preamble..recites that many visitations had been made in the 200 years preceding.

1920 Yale Law Jrnl. 29 937 Each deed recited that it was not to take effect during the life-time of the grantors.

1969 All Eng. Law Rep. 3 1493 By cl 2 of the codicil he recited that he was entitled under the will of his grandfather..to a fund which he called ‘the Chitty trust’.

1992 Weekly Law Rep. 4 Dec. 948 The assignments were on a printed form of deed. The document recited the ‘vendor's’ deposit in a specified account with B.C.C.I.

†a. transitive. To mention or speak of (a single person or thing). Obsolete.

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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > mention or speak of

to speak of ——c825

sayOE

besayc1200

talk ofc1230

to make mention ofc1300

readc1300

yminnea1325

nevenc1330

to make mindc1350

toucha1375

famea1400

minta1400

clepec1400

rehearsec1405

recitec1436

reckonc1480

mentionatec1525

mention1530

to speak upon ——1535

name1542

repeatc1550

voice1597

commemorate1599

to speak on ——1600

notice1611

quote1612

to make vent ofa1616

memorate1623

mensh1928

c1436 Chancery Proc. Ser. C1 File 9 No. 487 (MED) He..forged A obligacioun..to grete preiudice & damage of ȝour seid suppliant to the somme afore resytyd.

1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) ciiii. sig. Dd.iii Her dede is so greuous y^t it is not worthy to be recyted.

1552 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 143 To make vpp y^e full of xx^li w^thin this wyll resytted.

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 70^v What shoulde I resite Arganthonius, who was three score yeres before he came vnto his kingdome?

1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall sig. E1 As oft as Iames the monarch of our peace, Shall be in after chronicles recited, In that..England and Scotland he in one vnited.

a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1895) I. ii. 321 Lenchwycke..in the Charter of the Kynges Kenred and Offa, recyted next to Euesham.

b. transitive. To mention separately or in order (a number or set of things); to give a list or catalogue of; to enumerate, list. In later use passing into sense 5a.

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society > communication > record > list > [verb (transitive)]

telleOE

reckonc1175

titlea1325

reckonc1400

entitlec1430

recitea1475

recount1481

perusea1535

capitulate1566

recense1583

catalogue1598

item1601

renumerate1605

list1614

enumeratea1649

recenseate1657

cataloguize1820

to run down ——1833

reel1835

to call off1846

itemize1864

enumer1936

a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 278 (MED) He herde a man that recited lesingis and in-possible wordes.

1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) lxxii. sig. R.i Y^e dede of hym the whiche recyteth his hyghe faytes, and cheualrous dedes.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 200 All the things recited, and many others which I speake not of, are sold in every market of Mexico.

1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) v. xiii. 508 What should I heere recite their Camphora, Mirrhe, Frankincense,..and a world of others?

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 17 They were Minerals, as the Belemnites, and the others recited, are.

1787 J. Wesley Serm. II. xliii. 26 In many cases, by reciting the sins of their neighbours, men indulge their own foolish..desires.

1796 E. Inchbald Nature & Art II. xlvi. 194 Numerous other examples had been recited of the dangers, the evils that riches draw upon their owner.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. iv. 410 We find only the bishops and magnats recited as present.

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xvi. 137 At last he could bear it no longer, and broke in, reciting the names of books feverishly.

1937 R. Ferguson Lady Rose & Mrs. Memmary i. 11 The smallest peasant child could..recite you the Kings of Scotland.

1997 R. Solnit Bk. of Migrations xvi. 165 When her mother recited the places she'd like to go, Cathleen added, Please God, Jerusalem.

a. transitive. To relate, report, or describe; to give an account or detailed description of.

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the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)]

singc900

reckonOE

readOE

tellOE

showc1175

betellc1275

i-tellec1275

rehearsec1300

record1340

accounta1387

to chase forthc1386

retretec1400

reporta1402

count?a1425

recite1448

touch?a1450

repeat1451

deliverc1454

explikec1454

renderc1460

recount1477

to show forth1498

relate1530

to set forth1530

rechec1540

reaccount1561

recitate1568

history1600

recant1603

to run througha1616

enarrate1750

narrate1754

1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 40 (MED) Please hit yn to youre right gode..Lordship..to write unto the right reverend fader yn God..recytyng how that the seide mater of variance came before youre gode Lordship.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton E vij b Alle that thyn eyen seen thou oughtest not to recyte ne telle but..kepe hit secrete.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 As touchyng thys poynt yf I schold recyte al that I know [etc.].

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xv In his treaty..of the warres of Malta, [he] doth recyte a history no lesse lamentable.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) i. 5 It is thought [that they] be put to death as is before recited.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xix. 68 Antonio..recited unto them his unhappy voyage.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 221 Sincere, from whence began thy course, recite.

1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 366 [The sea anemones'] lively colours..equal any thing recited by natural historians of the sea-flowers of other climates.

1842 R. W. Emerson Uncoll. Prose xvii. 1220 Several of the best ballads in Mr. Lockhart's collection recite incidents of the Cid's history.

1924 Economist 24 May 1057/2 While this drama was being acted in Milan and Turin, another banking drama was recited before the Senate acting as the High Court of Justice.

1991 Independent on Sunday 19 May (Review Suppl.) 29/1 He gives his rent boy champagne, and has him stand naked and recite his sexual history while fisting his dick, his shlonger, his shvontz.

†b. intransitive. To give an account; to tell or report a story, tale, etc. Obsolete.

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1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. xiv. f. lxij He that gyueth ayde and help to his enemy is cause of his dethe, as recyteth [Fr. racompte] this fable.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Eiv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Where they haue estemed that it shulde be superflue to recyte, they haue obmysed and left some.

?a1560 T. Waterton in T. Wright Songs & Ballads Reign Philip & Mary (1860) 11 Thus Esaye the prophet pleanly dothe resyght.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 277 Cash notes..amounting to three hundred pounds, in consideration, as he recites, of our losses and unjust sufferings.

c. intransitive. To tell of something; (formerly also occasionally) †to claim to do something (obsolete). Now literary and archaic.

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the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate or give an account [verb (intransitive)]

mingc1225

accounta1393

report?a1439

recite1485

relate1609

1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 13 Now it sholde be ouerlonge to recyte of the barons.

?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aii Of suche ryche men recyteth the gospell,..Sayeng [etc.].

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. i. v. f. 8^v/1 Hippocrates..reciteth to have cured a certayne personage, which had receaved a shot with an arrowe.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 725 I haue also recited before in another place of the intreaty of Oxen.

1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxii. 205 Lest haply such thing would not come to your knowledge, I will recite of it here, what certain persons..have told me.

a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. Plato in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 219 When I recite of sorrow my eyes fill with tears.

1834 J. W. Ord England I. Introd. 6 Thy [i.e. history's] chords recite of that old gorgeous prime, When man was wise, and good, and pure, and strong.

1950 H. Nemerov Guide to Ruins in Coll. Poems (1977) 52 [He] will recite of royal fates Until, infamonized among the potentates By a messenger from nearer home, His comedy is compromised.

1998 M. Gibińska in G. Ahrends & H.-J. Diller Theatre & Relig. 50 In the midst of it stands the King who blandly recites of ‘the heaven’.

†a. transitive. To cite or quote from (a book); to refer to. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > documentary evidence > use written evidence [verb (transitive)] > quote in support

teemOE

allaya1387

allegea1398

allegate?a1425

recitea1450

exemplify1509

cite1531

vouch1581

quote1582

a1450 Quixley's Ballades in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1909) 20 44 (MED) Wherof I fynde a Cronyque thus I-write For ensample, gode is it to recite.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 63 Which booke, is oft recited, and moch praysed, in the fragmentes of Nonius.

1672 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 6) i. viii. 22 His Books are often recited [1650 cited] by ancient Writers.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 302 The Chronicon of Dunblane..is recited by Innes, in his MS. Collections.

b. transitive. To cite or quote (a law, passage, opinion, etc.).

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > bring forward as evidence

to draw forthc1175

showa1325

drawc1330

allaya1387

to avouch a thing upon (a person)1393

allegea1398

adduce?a1425

induce1433

recite1509

infera1529

vouch1531

cite1550

avouch1573

relate1604

instance1608

rejourn1624

quote1663

abduce1720

invoke1879

1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) ii. sig. A*.iiii Ye must recyte and declare good auctorytees of lawe and of decrete.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 121/2 After that he reciteth the decree which he himselfe made against them.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 70 Some few I will recite in this kinde out of most approoued Phisitians.

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme iii. ii. 109 I will briefly recite some few of those many miraculous passages.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 165 The passage of Mathew Paris above recited.

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 14 I might recite the opinions of a considerable number of writers.

1832 M. Stuart Comm. Epist. Romans 400 Without delaying to recite different opinions, I would merely say, that..it seems to me plain the question in ver. 20 is to be repeated.

1863 E. A. Hitchcock Red Bk. Appin (2003) 31 Besides the passage just recited from Isaiah, the prophet refers to the same Light in many other places.

1892 G. B. Goode in Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1891 iii. 283 The second [bill], reported February 6, recited the opinion—‘That the education of the children..is a duty of solemn and indispensable obligation’.

1985 M. Youssef Revolt against Modernity vii. 49 He recited the example of Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt..to prove his case.

2003 G. W. Jareke & N. K. Plant Seeking Civility vi. 72 The court of appeals recited the law of North Carolina..that the Wilsons would have to show that Pearce's conduct ‘exceed[ed] all bounds of decency’.

a. transitive. To read aloud or repeat from memory (a poem, passage, prayer, etc.), esp. before an audience. Also: to intone (a psalm, canticle, or the like).

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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (transitive)]

sayOE

record?c1225

reckonc1350

renderc1380

repeat1451

recite1481

to say over1560

bespout1575

decline1597

to call over1674

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. x. 153 The Orysons that ben sayd and recyted euery day in the chirches.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 681/1 He hath a syngular memorie, he recyted al our hole comunycacion and myssed nat a worde.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xv. 27 All other kinde of poems..were onely recited by mouth.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1636) i. iii. 121 Reciting the words of the Institution: In the night in which he gave himselfe for the life of the world.

a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) x. 168 Moral precepts [young men] cannot be said to believe,..they now recite them only, and shall then understand them, when they come of age.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 47. ⁋3 I recited some Heroick Lines of my own.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. 18 The dialogue was neither sung in measure, nor declaimed without Music, but recited in simple musical tones.

1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 151 Methinks I hear his voice while he recites Some fragment of a poem.

1844 Lives Eng. Saints, Gilbert vi. 70 One voice alone was heard, namely, that of the Chanter who recited the Psalm, or of the Priest who said the Prayer.

1884 S. Horner & J. Horner Walks in Florence (ed. 2) II. xxxi. 421 Strozzi..endowed the Church in 1589 on condition of masses being recited for his soul.

1929 R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (rev. ed.) iii. 94 Material that has been ‘over-learned’, i.e., studied beyond the point where it can barely be recited without error, is forgotten more slowly.

1969 J. Singer et al. tr. I. B. Singer Estate ii. xii. 183 A dibbuk had entered the body of a girl... She chanted the Torah, recited the Talmud, uttered chapters of the Scriptures perversely.

1990 A. S. Byatt Possession iii. 27 His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarök.

†b. transitive. To read out the name of (a person); to call on by name. Obsolete. rare.

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1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes ii. ii. 107 After this, the question is to be moued, eche man there presente being recited whether he wold aunswere unto this or that man.

†c. transitive. To read out the charges (charge n. 6) on (a shield). Obsolete. rare.

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1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxxii ‘I make’, cries Charley, reciting the shield, ‘three merions [perh. read morions] on a field or, with an earl's coronet.’

†6. transitive. To compose; to write down. Obsolete. rare.

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society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > set down in writing

adighteOE

to set on writea900

dightc1000

writeOE

brevea1225

layc1330

indite1340

take1418

annote1449

printa1450

scribe1465

redact?a1475

reduce1485

letter1504

recite1523

to commit to writing (also paper)1529

pen1530

reduce?1533

token up1535

scripture1540

titulea1550

to set down1562

quote1573

to put down1574

paper1594

to write down1594

apprehend1611

fix1630

exarate1656

depose1668

put1910

society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)]

setc888

adighteOE

awriteeOE

writeeOE

dightc1000

workOE

makelOE

brevea1225

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pen1530

contex1542

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author1597

context1628

to make up1630

spawn1631

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. i. f. 1/2 I toke on me..to wryte and recite the sayd boke [Fr. dicter & rimer les guerres dessusdictes], and bare y^e same compyled into Ingland.

1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xliv. 5 Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in writing.

1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 52 Wherefore he [sc. God] reciteth downe mens Actions, not out of any necessitie to helpe himself to remember them, but partly out of State.

7. intransitive. To read something aloud or repeat from memory; spec. (chiefly U.S., now historical) to be orally examined on, or answer questions on a school lesson or assignment (cf. recitation n. 3).

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the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (intransitive)]

echo1637

rehearse1693

recite1742

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (intransitive)]

to roll up1528

repeat1579

recite1742

society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > recite lesson

recite1742

1742 E. A. Holyoke Diary 22 Aug. (1911) 32 This day began to recite to M^r Flynt & M^r Appleton in Tully and virgill & Greek testament.

1759 S. Gardner Jrnl. 21 Mar. in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1913) XLIX. 6 Finished reciting, the Dr. gave us good advice.

1815 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 18/1 Those not immediately engaged in reciting to some one or other of the professors, remain in their own chambers.

1851 Musical World 6 Dec. 772/1 What should we think of the pedant who should undertake to recite from Homer or Sophocles without having previously read the compositions.

a1882 J. P. Quincy Figures of Past (1884) 14 From each of these books we were required to recite once a week.

1904 Churchman 6 Aug. 237 Each cadet [at West Point] must be prepared to recite every day upon all the subjects of study upon which he is engaged.

1981 A. Gray Lanark i. xix. 197 The English teacher told his students to learn by heart some passages of prose, preferably from the bible, since they might be asked to recite aloud.

1999 S. Wilson in Year's Wk. Crit. & Cultural Theory vii. 82 Suddenly, the unappetizing lump rises in the plate, extends its little green arms, and begins to recite, theatrically.

Derivatives

reˈcitable adj. [compare post-classical Latin recitabilis worth giving an account of (from 12th cent. in British sources), fit to be read out (15th cent. in a British source)] able to be recited; worthy of recital.

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1714 Laws of Honour 128 These Baronies were anciently uncertain and recitable at the Pleasure of the King.

1873 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 519/1 One of the most hopeful characteristics of modern primary teaching..is..a tendency to exalt right habits of learning over recitable results.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Apr. 46/2 He put his truths in maxim form, breaking up his sentences into didactically recitable breath-units.

2003 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 21 Nov. d8 The much-ballyhooed Rams own a recitable list of accolades.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	recite
释义	reciten. Brit. /rᵻˈsʌɪt/, U.S. /rəˈsaɪt/, /riˈsaɪt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: recite v. Etymology: < recite v., perhaps after Middle French, French récit récit n. Recital, recitation; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ 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 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > an act of or recital sayingc1390 recital1567 recitation1618 spout1832 recite1885 1594 Zepheria xv. sig. C4 My feares how oft haue I engeminated? Oh black recite of passed miserie. a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Miscellanea: 3rd Pt. (1701) 132 All the former Recites or Observations, either of long-lived Races or Persons in any Age or Country. 1784 Weekly Entertainer 20 Sept. 285 His plaints affected him, and each pale sprite Forgot his pains to hear him his recite. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xxxvi. 23 Small birds on branches sang with melodious recite. 1990 Weekend Tel. 17 Feb. p. ii/6 The Junior Daughter is doing a Sponsored Recite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). recitev. Brit. /rᵻˈsʌɪt/, U.S. /rəˈsaɪt/, /riˈsaɪt/ Forms: α. late Middle English–1500s resyte, late Middle English–1600s resite, 1500s rescite, 1500s resighte, 1500s resyght, 1500s resytted (past participle), 1500s rezite, 1500s rezyt, 1500s rezyte, 1500s–1600s resight; Scottish pre-1700 resyite, pre-1700 resyte. β. late Middle English–1600s recyte, late Middle English– recite, 1500s–1600s receite, 1500s–1600s receyte; Scottish pre-1700 receit, pre-1700 receite, pre-1700 recitt, pre-1700 recyte, pre-1700 1700s– recite; N.E.D. (1904) also records a form 1500s receat (Scottish). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French receiter, reciter; Latin recitāre. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman receiter, receitter, Anglo-Norman and Middle French reciter (French réciter ) to read (a text) aloud (c1150 in Old French), to narrate, relate, report (1214 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), to tell (of something) (mid 14th cent.), to enumerate, to give a list or catalogue of (c1370), to cite or quote (a text or passage) (beginning of the 15th cent.), to mention or speak of (a person or thing) (first half of the 15th cent.), to give an account, to tell a story (1484 in the source translated in quot. 1484 at sense 3b, or earlier), to repeat (a text) from memory (1530), in Anglo-Norman also to state (a relevant fact) in a legal document (early 14th cent. or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin recitāre to read out or repeat aloud, to recite (literary works) especially before an audience, in post-classical Latin also to give an account of (frequently from a1109 in British sources), to cite, quote (c1324 in a British source in recitare male to misquote) < re- re- prefix + citāre cite v. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan recitar (end of the 13th cent.), Catalan recitar (1272), Spanish recitar (mid 13th cent.), Italian recitare (late 13th cent.; 13th cent. as †recetare).In to recite of (see sense 3c) after Middle French reciter de (mid 14th cent.). 1. transitive. Law. To state (a relevant fact) in a deed or other legal document. Also with clause as object. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [verb (transitive)] > state in legal document recite1430 1430–1 Rolls of Parl. IV. 376/1 That ye Juges..make oute a remembrance..resityng ye issue yat is joyned in ye same ple of bastardie. 1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §36. m. 20 Recityng by the same among other, that where among certeyn liberties and privileges [etc.]. 1532 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 31 Reciting that by a deed bipartite he had enfeoffed [etc.]. 1680 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 78 The liberty of printeing by long usage, and..granted by charter till the time of K. Charles y^e 1^st, whose grant recites the sayd usage. 1723 Act 9 Geo. I c. 24 §8 All Papists..shall..make and subscribe the Declaration called the Formula, as the same is recited in an Act of Parliament of Scotland [of 1700]. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxi. 358 The subsequent proceedings are made up into a record or recovery roll, in which the writ and complaint of the defendant are first recited. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 431 John Ivy in the beginning of his will recited that he had made a former will in the life of his wife. 1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. i. 13 The preamble..recites that many visitations had been made in the 200 years preceding. 1920 Yale Law Jrnl. 29 937 Each deed recited that it was not to take effect during the life-time of the grantors. 1969 All Eng. Law Rep. 3 1493 By cl 2 of the codicil he recited that he was entitled under the will of his grandfather..to a fund which he called ‘the Chitty trust’. 1992 Weekly Law Rep. 4 Dec. 948 The assignments were on a printed form of deed. The document recited the ‘vendor's’ deposit in a specified account with B.C.C.I. 2. †a. transitive. To mention or speak of (a single person or thing). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > mention or speak of to speak of ——c825 sayOE besayc1200 talk ofc1230 to make mention ofc1300 readc1300 yminnea1325 nevenc1330 to make mindc1350 toucha1375 famea1400 minta1400 clepec1400 rehearsec1405 recitec1436 reckonc1480 mentionatec1525 mention1530 to speak upon ——1535 name1542 repeatc1550 voice1597 commemorate1599 to speak on ——1600 notice1611 quote1612 to make vent ofa1616 memorate1623 mensh1928 c1436 Chancery Proc. Ser. C1 File 9 No. 487 (MED) He..forged A obligacioun..to grete preiudice & damage of ȝour seid suppliant to the somme afore resytyd. 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) ciiii. sig. Dd.iii Her dede is so greuous y^t it is not worthy to be recyted. 1552 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 143 To make vpp y^e full of xx^li w^thin this wyll resytted. ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 70^v What shoulde I resite Arganthonius, who was three score yeres before he came vnto his kingdome? 1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall sig. E1 As oft as Iames the monarch of our peace, Shall be in after chronicles recited, In that..England and Scotland he in one vnited. a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1895) I. ii. 321 Lenchwycke..in the Charter of the Kynges Kenred and Offa, recyted next to Euesham. b. transitive. To mention separately or in order (a number or set of things); to give a list or catalogue of; to enumerate, list. In later use passing into sense 5a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [verb (transitive)] telleOE reckonc1175 titlea1325 reckonc1400 entitlec1430 recitea1475 recount1481 perusea1535 capitulate1566 recense1583 catalogue1598 item1601 renumerate1605 list1614 enumeratea1649 recenseate1657 cataloguize1820 to run down ——1833 reel1835 to call off1846 itemize1864 enumer1936 a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 278 (MED) He herde a man that recited lesingis and in-possible wordes. 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) lxxii. sig. R.i Y^e dede of hym the whiche recyteth his hyghe faytes, and cheualrous dedes. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 200 All the things recited, and many others which I speake not of, are sold in every market of Mexico. 1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) v. xiii. 508 What should I heere recite their Camphora, Mirrhe, Frankincense,..and a world of others? 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 17 They were Minerals, as the Belemnites, and the others recited, are. 1787 J. Wesley Serm. II. xliii. 26 In many cases, by reciting the sins of their neighbours, men indulge their own foolish..desires. 1796 E. Inchbald Nature & Art II. xlvi. 194 Numerous other examples had been recited of the dangers, the evils that riches draw upon their owner. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. iv. 410 We find only the bishops and magnats recited as present. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xvi. 137 At last he could bear it no longer, and broke in, reciting the names of books feverishly. 1937 R. Ferguson Lady Rose & Mrs. Memmary i. 11 The smallest peasant child could..recite you the Kings of Scotland. 1997 R. Solnit Bk. of Migrations xvi. 165 When her mother recited the places she'd like to go, Cathleen added, Please God, Jerusalem. 3. a. transitive. To relate, report, or describe; to give an account or detailed description of. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)] singc900 reckonOE readOE tellOE showc1175 betellc1275 i-tellec1275 rehearsec1300 record1340 accounta1387 to chase forthc1386 retretec1400 reporta1402 count?a1425 recite1448 touch?a1450 repeat1451 deliverc1454 explikec1454 renderc1460 recount1477 to show forth1498 relate1530 to set forth1530 rechec1540 reaccount1561 recitate1568 history1600 recant1603 to run througha1616 enarrate1750 narrate1754 1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 40 (MED) Please hit yn to youre right gode..Lordship..to write unto the right reverend fader yn God..recytyng how that the seide mater of variance came before youre gode Lordship. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton E vij b Alle that thyn eyen seen thou oughtest not to recyte ne telle but..kepe hit secrete. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 As touchyng thys poynt yf I schold recyte al that I know [etc.]. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xv In his treaty..of the warres of Malta, [he] doth recyte a history no lesse lamentable. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) i. 5 It is thought [that they] be put to death as is before recited. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xix. 68 Antonio..recited unto them his unhappy voyage. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 221 Sincere, from whence began thy course, recite. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 366 [The sea anemones'] lively colours..equal any thing recited by natural historians of the sea-flowers of other climates. 1842 R. W. Emerson Uncoll. Prose xvii. 1220 Several of the best ballads in Mr. Lockhart's collection recite incidents of the Cid's history. 1924 Economist 24 May 1057/2 While this drama was being acted in Milan and Turin, another banking drama was recited before the Senate acting as the High Court of Justice. 1991 Independent on Sunday 19 May (Review Suppl.) 29/1 He gives his rent boy champagne, and has him stand naked and recite his sexual history while fisting his dick, his shlonger, his shvontz. †b. intransitive. To give an account; to tell or report a story, tale, etc. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. xiv. f. lxij He that gyueth ayde and help to his enemy is cause of his dethe, as recyteth [Fr. racompte] this fable. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Eiv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Where they haue estemed that it shulde be superflue to recyte, they haue obmysed and left some. ?a1560 T. Waterton in T. Wright Songs & Ballads Reign Philip & Mary (1860) 11 Thus Esaye the prophet pleanly dothe resyght. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 277 Cash notes..amounting to three hundred pounds, in consideration, as he recites, of our losses and unjust sufferings. c. intransitive. To tell of something; (formerly also occasionally) †to claim to do something (obsolete). Now literary and archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate or give an account [verb (intransitive)] mingc1225 accounta1393 report?a1439 recite1485 relate1609 1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 13 Now it sholde be ouerlonge to recyte of the barons. ?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aii Of suche ryche men recyteth the gospell,..Sayeng [etc.]. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. i. v. f. 8^v/1 Hippocrates..reciteth to have cured a certayne personage, which had receaved a shot with an arrowe. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 725 I haue also recited before in another place of the intreaty of Oxen. 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxii. 205 Lest haply such thing would not come to your knowledge, I will recite of it here, what certain persons..have told me. a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. Plato in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 219 When I recite of sorrow my eyes fill with tears. 1834 J. W. Ord England I. Introd. 6 Thy [i.e. history's] chords recite of that old gorgeous prime, When man was wise, and good, and pure, and strong. 1950 H. Nemerov Guide to Ruins in Coll. Poems (1977) 52 [He] will recite of royal fates Until, infamonized among the potentates By a messenger from nearer home, His comedy is compromised. 1998 M. Gibińska in G. Ahrends & H.-J. Diller Theatre & Relig. 50 In the midst of it stands the King who blandly recites of ‘the heaven’. 4. †a. transitive. To cite or quote from (a book); to refer to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > documentary evidence > use written evidence [verb (transitive)] > quote in support teemOE allaya1387 allegea1398 allegate?a1425 recitea1450 exemplify1509 cite1531 vouch1581 quote1582 a1450 Quixley's Ballades in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1909) 20 44 (MED) Wherof I fynde a Cronyque thus I-write For ensample, gode is it to recite. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 63 Which booke, is oft recited, and moch praysed, in the fragmentes of Nonius. 1672 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 6) i. viii. 22 His Books are often recited [1650 cited] by ancient Writers. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 302 The Chronicon of Dunblane..is recited by Innes, in his MS. Collections. b. transitive. To cite or quote (a law, passage, opinion, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > bring forward as evidence to draw forthc1175 showa1325 drawc1330 allaya1387 to avouch a thing upon (a person)1393 allegea1398 adduce?a1425 induce1433 recite1509 infera1529 vouch1531 cite1550 avouch1573 relate1604 instance1608 rejourn1624 quote1663 abduce1720 invoke1879 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) ii. sig. A.iiii Ye must recyte and declare good auctorytees of lawe and of decrete. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes* (rev. ed.) I. 121/2 After that he reciteth the decree which he himselfe made against them. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 70 Some few I will recite in this kinde out of most approoued Phisitians. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme iii. ii. 109 I will briefly recite some few of those many miraculous passages. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 165 The passage of Mathew Paris above recited. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 14 I might recite the opinions of a considerable number of writers. 1832 M. Stuart Comm. Epist. Romans 400 Without delaying to recite different opinions, I would merely say, that..it seems to me plain the question in ver. 20 is to be repeated. 1863 E. A. Hitchcock Red Bk. Appin (2003) 31 Besides the passage just recited from Isaiah, the prophet refers to the same Light in many other places. 1892 G. B. Goode in Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1891 iii. 283 The second [bill], reported February 6, recited the opinion—‘That the education of the children..is a duty of solemn and indispensable obligation’. 1985 M. Youssef Revolt against Modernity vii. 49 He recited the example of Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt..to prove his case. 2003 G. W. Jareke & N. K. Plant Seeking Civility vi. 72 The court of appeals recited the law of North Carolina..that the Wilsons would have to show that Pearce's conduct ‘exceed[ed] all bounds of decency’. 5. a. transitive. To read aloud or repeat from memory (a poem, passage, prayer, etc.), esp. before an audience. Also: to intone (a psalm, canticle, or the like). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (transitive)] sayOE record?c1225 reckonc1350 renderc1380 repeat1451 recite1481 to say over1560 bespout1575 decline1597 to call over1674 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. x. 153 The Orysons that ben sayd and recyted euery day in the chirches. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 681/1 He hath a syngular memorie, he recyted al our hole comunycacion and myssed nat a worde. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xv. 27 All other kinde of poems..were onely recited by mouth. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1636) i. iii. 121 Reciting the words of the Institution: In the night in which he gave himselfe for the life of the world. a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) x. 168 Moral precepts [young men] cannot be said to believe,..they now recite them only, and shall then understand them, when they come of age. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 47. ⁋3 I recited some Heroick Lines of my own. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. 18 The dialogue was neither sung in measure, nor declaimed without Music, but recited in simple musical tones. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 151 Methinks I hear his voice while he recites Some fragment of a poem. 1844 Lives Eng. Saints, Gilbert vi. 70 One voice alone was heard, namely, that of the Chanter who recited the Psalm, or of the Priest who said the Prayer. 1884 S. Horner & J. Horner Walks in Florence (ed. 2) II. xxxi. 421 Strozzi..endowed the Church in 1589 on condition of masses being recited for his soul. 1929 R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (rev. ed.) iii. 94 Material that has been ‘over-learned’, i.e., studied beyond the point where it can barely be recited without error, is forgotten more slowly. 1969 J. Singer et al. tr. I. B. Singer Estate ii. xii. 183 A dibbuk had entered the body of a girl... She chanted the Torah, recited the Talmud, uttered chapters of the Scriptures perversely. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession iii. 27 His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarök. †b. transitive. To read out the name of (a person); to call on by name. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes ii. ii. 107 After this, the question is to be moued, eche man there presente being recited whether he wold aunswere unto this or that man. †c. transitive. To read out the charges (charge n. 6) on (a shield). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxxii ‘I make’, cries Charley, reciting the shield, ‘three merions [perh. read morions] on a field or, with an earl's coronet.’ †6. transitive. To compose; to write down. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > set down in writing adighteOE to set on writea900 dightc1000 writeOE brevea1225 layc1330 indite1340 take1418 annote1449 printa1450 scribe1465 redact?a1475 reduce1485 letter1504 recite1523 to commit to writing (also paper)1529 pen1530 reduce?1533 token up1535 scripture1540 titulea1550 to set down1562 quote1573 to put down1574 paper1594 to write down1594 apprehend1611 fix1630 exarate1656 depose1668 put1910 society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] setc888 adighteOE awriteeOE writeeOE dightc1000 workOE makelOE brevea1225 ditea1300 aditec1330 indite1340 betravail1387 compone1393 saya1475 compile1477 compose1483 comprise1485 recite1523 pen1530 contex1542 invent1576 author1597 context1628 to make up1630 spawn1631 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. i. f. 1/2 I toke on me..to wryte and recite the sayd boke [Fr. dicter & rimer les guerres dessusdictes], and bare y^e same compyled into Ingland. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xliv. 5 Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in writing. View more context for this quotation 1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 52 Wherefore he [sc. God] reciteth downe mens Actions, not out of any necessitie to helpe himself to remember them, but partly out of State. 7. intransitive. To read something aloud or repeat from memory; spec. (chiefly U.S., now historical) to be orally examined on, or answer questions on a school lesson or assignment (cf. recitation n. 3). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (intransitive)] echo1637 rehearse1693 recite1742 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (intransitive)] to roll up1528 repeat1579 recite1742 society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > recite lesson recite1742 1742 E. A. Holyoke Diary 22 Aug. (1911) 32 This day began to recite to M^r Flynt & M^r Appleton in Tully and virgill & Greek testament. 1759 S. Gardner Jrnl. 21 Mar. in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1913) XLIX. 6 Finished reciting, the Dr. gave us good advice. 1815 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 18/1 Those not immediately engaged in reciting to some one or other of the professors, remain in their own chambers. 1851 Musical World 6 Dec. 772/1 What should we think of the pedant who should undertake to recite from Homer or Sophocles without having previously read the compositions. a1882 J. P. Quincy Figures of Past (1884) 14 From each of these books we were required to recite once a week. 1904 Churchman 6 Aug. 237 Each cadet [at West Point] must be prepared to recite every day upon all the subjects of study upon which he is engaged. 1981 A. Gray Lanark i. xix. 197 The English teacher told his students to learn by heart some passages of prose, preferably from the bible, since they might be asked to recite aloud. 1999 S. Wilson in Year's Wk. Crit. & Cultural Theory vii. 82 Suddenly, the unappetizing lump rises in the plate, extends its little green arms, and begins to recite, theatrically. Derivatives reˈcitable adj. [compare post-classical Latin recitabilis worth giving an account of (from 12th cent. in British sources), fit to be read out (15th cent. in a British source)] able to be recited; worthy of recital. ΚΠ 1714 Laws of Honour 128 These Baronies were anciently uncertain and recitable at the Pleasure of the King. 1873 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 519/1 One of the most hopeful characteristics of modern primary teaching..is..a tendency to exalt right habits of learning over recitable results. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Apr. 46/2 He put his truths in maxim form, breaking up his sentences into didactically recitable breath-units. 2003 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 21 Nov. d8 The much-ballyhooed Rams own a recitable list of accolades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1594v.1430
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