v. 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.v. To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narratev. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.v. To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.verb-intransitive. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.n. A recital.