All 5 Uses of
recite
in
Middlemarch
- …or questionable detail of which Dorothea did not see the bearing; but such imperfect coherence seemed due to the brokenness of their intercourse, and, supported by her faith in their future, she had listened with fervid patience to a recitation of possible arguments to be brought against Mr. Casaubon's entirely new view of the Philistine god Dagon and other fish-deities, thinking that hereafter she should see this subject which touched him so nearly from the same high ground…†
Chpt 2
- Dorothea told him that she had seen Lydgate, and recited the gist of her conversation with him about the Hospital.†
Chpt 5 *
- Here were deeper reasons than the superficial talk of a new man, which appeared still flimsier in the drawing-room over the shop, when they were recited to Mrs. Mawmsey, a woman accustomed to be made much of as a fertile mother,—generally under attendance more or less frequent from Mr. Gambit, and occasionally having attacks which required Dr. Minchin.†
Chpt 5
- Mr. Hawley indeed, in the first instance, invited a select party, including the two physicians, with Mr Toller and Mr. Wrench, expressly to hold a close discussion as to the probabilities of Raffles's illness, reciting to them all the particulars which had been gathered from Mrs. Abel in connection with Lydgate's certificate, that the death was due to delirium tremens; and the medical gentlemen, who all stood undisturbedly on the old paths in relation to this disease, declared that…†
Chpt 7
- "It is all true, Fred, and I am happy because of it—because I love you best," said Mary, in a tone of obedient recitation.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(recite) to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem
or:
to say in detail -- especially a list of things