Crossword clues for recitation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recitation \Rec`i*ta"tion\ (r[e^]s`[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. recitatio: cf. F. r['e]citation. See Recite.]
The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
--Hammond.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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "act of detailing," from Old French récitation (14c.) and directly from Latin recitationem (nominative recitatio) "public reading, a reading aloud," noun of action from past participle stem of recitare (see recite). Meaning "act of repeating aloud" is from 1620s; that of "repetition of a prepared lesson" is first recorded 1770, American English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of publicly recite something previously memorized. 2 The material recited. 3 A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
WordNet
n. written matter that is recited from memory
a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" [syn: recital, reading]
a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study [syn: course session, class period]
systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" [syn: exercise, practice, drill, practice session]
Wikipedia
A recitation in a general sense is the act of reciting from memory, or a formal reading of verse or other writing before an audience.
Recitation is the fifth album from Envy. Recitation continues to expand upon the band's previous albums by using further elements of post-rock and spoken word while also maintaining screamed vocals, and is often seen as an album of further growth for Envy that improves upon the predecessors by perfecting their mix of screamo, hardcore punk and post-rock. They also continue to use Japanese lyrics.
Recitation (foaled 20 February 1978) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was one of the best European two-year-olds of 1980, when he won the Coventry Stakes by five lengths and the Grand Criterium in France. In the following year he won the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, but was beaten in his last three starts. In all, he recorded five wins and five placings in a career of thirteen races. He was retired to become a breeding stallion in Kentucky, but had little success as a sire of winners.
Usage examples of "recitation".
Ask any assemblage of teachers how many think that, in general, their own teachers used to talk too much in the recitation, thereby monopolizing the time, and two thirds will blame their former teachers for over-using the lecture method.
It is easy to glance a lesson over just before reciting, and have it stick in the memory only long enough to serve the purposes of the recitation.
This form of distraction consists in having the whole class watch the one who is reciting, and, if they observe an error in the recitation, at once raise their hands, when the one reciting must stop.
The class which is reciting should not be interrupted for minor misdemeanors which occur during the recitation.
From that truly venerable woman, long after the death of her distinguished son, Cromek, in collecting the Reliques, obtained a copy by recitation of the older strain.
Much the same could have been said about the often prestigious contributors to some of the other targeted journals, whose arguments went far beyond the simplistic recitation of Marxist mantras.
During the recitation of my musculoskeletal stats, the drone stated there was little evidence of any former injuries.
The sustained regimen, regular recitation, erect posture, daily walk, persistent exercise, and unintermitted labor that toughens a boy, and makes a man of him, can only be partially applied to a girl.
Its stock incorporated a semiwide beavertailHe paused in his mental recitation of the Tac Ops catalog description to peer at the weapon, not quite sure what a beavertail was.
Though Garrick was more successful in his Johnsonian recitation of poetry, Boswell won in reproducing his familiar conversation.
Out of the windows which opened on the street, recitations, hymns, and lamentations sounded night and day.
BREEN: You were the lion of the night with your seriocomic recitation and you looked the part.
By the time Tathagata finished his recitation, Simon was ready to step onto the next interstellar transport headed toward Jefferson and assassinate the leadership of POPPA at any and all risk.
For three weeks following the release of his conclusions he was required to defend them before scientific bodies, groups of reporters and television cameras, and with every recitation of his findings he became more obdurate in his support of them.
At the end of the recitation which gained the applause of all who heard it, although not one of them knew Italian, Madame Denis, his niece, asked me if I thought the passage her uncle had just recited one of the finest the poet had written.