recite
verb
[ rɪˈsʌɪt ]
• repeat aloud or declaim (a poem or passage) from memory before an audience.
• "he recited passages of Dante"
Similar:
repeat from memory,
say aloud,
read aloud,
declaim,
quote,
speak,
deliver,
render,
intone,
chant,
spout,
parrot,
say parrot-fashion,
daven,
cantillate,
intonate,
bespout,
give a recitation,
say a poem,
perform,
do one's party piece,
Origin:
late Middle English (as a legal term in the sense ‘state (a fact) in a document’): from Old French reciter or Latin recitare ‘read out’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + citare ‘cite’.
