- About to quote, say, from memory
- Perform a poem
- Reel off
- Repeat from memory
- Uter aloud
- 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.