Index of English words, starting with "re"

(1) - Recision (n.) The act of cutting off.

(1) - Recital (n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation.
(2) - Recital (n.) A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.
(3) - Recital (n.) That which is recited; a story; a narration.
(4) - Recital (n.) A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
(5) - Recital (n.) The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

(1) - Recitation (n.) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.
(2) - Recitation (n.) The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.
(3) - Recitation (n.) The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

(1) - Recitative (a.) Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.
(2) - Recitative (n.) A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.

(1) - Recite (n.) A recital.
(2) - Recite (v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
(3) - Recite (v. t.) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
(4) - Recite (v. t.) To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
(5) - Recite (v. t.) To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
(6) - Recite (v. t.) 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.