单词 | reciter |
释义 | recitern. 1. A person who recites (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > one who recites rehearsera1425 reciter1572 recitator1755 recitant?1775 recitationist1851 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Recitour, recitator. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A rehearser, a recitor, or reader. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. ii. iv. 229 Solemne Declamations of certaine select yong Gentlemen in Florence (like those Reciters in old Rome). 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 521. ⁋4 The others repeat only what they hear from others..and are called Reciters. 1796 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 215 If the persons through whom it has passed to the reciter are not mistaken in their details. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. v. 135 The graceful form and animated countenance of the gallant young reciter. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 76 An excellent vocalist and reciter. 1937 G. P. Lestrade in I. Schapera Bantu-Speaking Tribes S. Afr. xiii. 300 The tribal praise-poem reciter..makes a new praise from time to time. 1949 H. A. R. Gibb Mohammedanism iii. 50 First ten and then seven famous ‘reciters’ were recognized as authoritative teachers and all their ‘readings’ were accepted as orthodox. 1991 Hist. Today Oct. 21/1 They were probably not so much authors as reciters, with a repertoire of traditional popular ballads. 2. A book containing selected passages intended to be read aloud or recited. Cf. reader n. 6.Frequently used in the titles of such books. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > something to be recited or read aloud lurryc1580 reciter1760 speaker1774 piece1822 speech1886 1760 Monthly Rev. June 451 Martial's wretched Reciter appropriated that Poet's epigrams to himself. 1799 (title) The reader, or reciter: by the assistance of which any person may teach himself to read or recite English prose. 1829 (title) The universal reciter, and cabinet of comicalities; an elegant collection of..recitations. 1865 W. E. Aytoun Ballads Sc. (ed. 2) II. 245 [I am] following the text of Jamieson, with..the addition of one stanza which had been dropped by his reciter. a1911 J. W. Kirton (title) in Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) (1911) 4 July 11/4 Sunday school reciters. 1978 K. Amis (title) Faber popular reciter. 2001 S. Kates Activist Rhetorics & Amer. Higher Educ. iii. 64 Popular reciters..are fairly consistent in their maintenance of a canon of works by Shakespeare, Poe, Tennyson [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1572 |
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