[rɪˈsʌɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- repeat aloud or declaim (a poem or passage) from memory before an audience
(e.g: he recited passages of Dante)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (as a legal term in the sense ‘state (a fact) in a document’): from Old French reciter or Latin recitare ‘read out’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + citare ‘cite’