Something said by rote; a lesson, set speech, ‘patter’; figurative a cant formula. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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| 释义 | the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > something to be recited or read aloud (5) lurryc1580 Something said by rote; a lesson, set speech, ‘patter’; figurative a cant formula. Obsolete exc. dialect. reciter1760 A book containing selected passages intended to be read aloud or recited. Cf. reader, n. 6. speaker1774 As a title of books containing pieces adapted for recitation or reading aloud. piece1822 The product or result of an art, craft, etc. Cf. sense 1c. A passage for recitation; a short speech. Now chiefly U.S. and English regional except in t… speech1886 A school exercise or composition declaimed or recited upon speech-day. |
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