Crossword clues for reciting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recite \Re*cite"\ (r[-e]*s[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recited; p. pr. & vb. n. Reciting.] [F. r['e]citer, fr. L. recitare, recitatum; pref. re- re- + citare to call or name, to cite. See Cite.]
To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.
To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
(Law) To state in or as a recital. See Recital,
Syn: To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate; detail; number; count.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of recite English)
Usage examples of "reciting".
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.
The timid child who shrinks from reciting or going to the blackboard to draw or write needs encouragement and teaching especially.
This does not give opportunity for practice enough in reciting on the part of the pupil, if the question-and-answer method is employed exclusively.
Teachers sometimes even interrupt a pupil who is reciting and themselves offer explanations, make remarks, or continue the discussion, leaving the child standing and not knowing whether he is excused or not.
The pupil should not expect to be allowed to think out a lesson or a point when he is reciting, which he should have thought out before coming to class.
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.
Further, it is a most serious distraction to the one who is reciting to be expecting that a forest of hands may at any moment be wildly waving about his ears, gleefully announcing that he has made an error.
The class which is reciting should not be interrupted for minor misdemeanors which occur during the recitation.
In some schools pupils who are diffident about reciting, or who do not care to take the trouble, shake their heads in refusal almost before they hear the question in full.
And, besides, if the lesson is well assigned, so that it is better understood and prepared by the class, more can be accomplished in ten minutes of actual reciting than in fifteen under the old method.
She bowed her head, reciting prayers and fingering the beads in rhythm with her petitions.
Today I took the long path around, fingering my beads and reciting prayers for Uncle Henry with every step.
Uncle Henry spoke as if reciting a ballad of old in a lilting cadence.
When the fire crackled cheerfully, I dropped the first herb into it, reciting the Welsh words I barely understood.
After reciting the poem, Pancho and several other members read speeches in which the greatness of poetry consisted of nobility of spirit and passionate commitment to la patria, as exemplified in the poetry of Salome Urefia.