All 3 Uses of
recite
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- You have to be in a certain mood to accept bad recitations of poetry.†
Part 3 *
- Phaedrus is quite ready to recite in detail the exact arguments Socrates uses to establish this view.†
Part 4
- Phaedrus meets Socrates, who knows only the ways of the city, and leads him into the country, whereupon he begins to recite a speech of the orator, Lysias, whom he admires.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The noun form, recitation, normally refers to the act of reciting or to what was recited; however, much more rarely, it can refer to a session in which a teaching assistant reviews and expands on a teacher's lecture.