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/rˌɛsətˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Recitation n.

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.

(Colleges and Schools) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... surprising how well the girl from Bohemia fitted into the life at Harding. She had never experienced an examination or even a formal recitation until the beginning of her freshman term. She had seldom lived three months in any one place, and she had grown up absolutely without reference to the rules and regulations and conventions that meant so much to the majority of her fellow-students. But she ...

— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde

... the sick room; they go back, and Constance enters at once upon her new, strange task. Her heart heavy; her hand firm; her ears smitten by the babbling recitation of that awful secret; and her lips sealed with the seal of ...

— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch

... Irish not spoken to-day, as unlike as the Chaucerian English is to our common speech; and even to write down modern Irish by ear I was poorly qualified. Things were made harder, too, by the manner of recitation, as traditional as the words. He chanted, with a continuous vocalisation, and while he chanted, elbow and knee worked like a fiddler's or piper's marking the time. However, with persistence, I got the thing down, letting ...

— Irish Books and Irish People • Stephen Gwynn

... of playing "Chitterbob" a paper horn used to be twisted into the player's hair for each mistake made in the recitation, and at the end these horns could be got rid of ...

— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... school-boys might play in our own land. While his back was turned they took his whip and hid it and duly triumphed in his mystification and dismay. We did not wait for the catastrophe, but by the politeness of another student found the booth of the custodian, who showed us to the library. A noise of recitation from the windows looking into the patio followed us up-stairs; but maturer students were reading at tables in the hushed library, and at a large central table a circle of grave authorities of some ...

— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells

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