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Rehearsed

Rehearse \Re*hearse"\ (r?*h?rs"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehearsed (-h?rst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehearsing.] [OE. rehercen, rehersen, OF. reherser, rehercier, to harrow over again; pref. re- re- + hercier to harrow, fr. herce a harrow, F. herse. See Hearse.]

  1. To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
    --Chaucer.

    When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul.
    --1 Sam. xvii. 31.

  2. To narrate; to relate; to tell.

    Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord.
    --Judg. . v. 11.

  3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

  4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.]

    He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.
    --Dickens.

    Syn: To recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe; tell; relate; narrate.

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rehearsed

vb. (en-past of: rehearse)

Usage examples of "rehearsed".

So, except for brief consultations now and then between the colony's co-leaders, Todd was free to spend long hours with Ken and Hrriss as they parsed and rehearsed Gringg sounds, and memorized what vocabulary had been exchanged and figured out the probable syntactical forms.

Having sung and played so often together, they interwove and harmonized as if they had rehearsed the brand-new song a hundred times already.

Mentally she rehearsed phrases of a report she'd make to the Xenobiological Survey on the cooperative tendencies of the golden fliers.

Then, as if this were a much rehearsed courtesy, the Middle Giff began to back up, an awkward movement for one of its size.

Favoring Keff with a disapproving glare, Chaumel reclaimed his guest's attention and went on with his carefully rehearsed speech.

Peter rehearsed the details of that happy experience until he could relive the entire scene from the moment the door chime had announced that his father had made it home until Dad had tucked him into his bunk.

He swept an arm back to his mother in continuation of his carefully rehearsed greeting.

She hadn't rehearsed it since that day, weeks before, when Scan had coaxed the words from her.

Kris was shaking badly when the comunit buzzed, but Zainal had rehearsed her in two more phrases.

Again, as if the unique maneuver had been many times rehearsed, on the third downstroke of six pairs of great wings, the dragons went between.

As they walked back to the Hall entrance, he again directed her not to be all morning at the copying or he'd never get the new quartet sufficiently rehearsed before the Festival.

At night Jayge rehearsed those faces, all but the six dead, in his mind.

The phrases he had rehearsed so often piled out of his mouth and continued even when he heard someone mumbling imprecations about the "Abomination's corruptions.

Jaxom replied, holding up one hand as he mentally rehearsed the procedure for altering the view on the main screen.

And on Whitsunday he achieved the sword as it is rehearsed in the book of Sangreal.