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He stood in front of everyone, facing east, vigorously reciting a long sura, and once prayer had started, no one was allowed to say anything that was not related to the performance of the prayer.†
p. 44.3
He rubbed some of the water from the calabash on my forehead and recited more prayers, followed by the proclamation of my name.†
p. 76.9 *
I began, and he recited the whole speech with me.†
p. 104.5
When I was seven, I used to go to the town square to recite monologues from the works of Shakespeare for the adults of my community.†
p. 104.7
They sat on long wooden benches, and at the end of their discussions I would be called upon to recite Shakespeare.†
p. 104.9
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ...I always recited speeches from Macbeth and Julius Caesar.†
p. 105.1
Instead of smiling in their sleep, Sheku went "Paw paw, boom," and Josiah went, "One, two," the numbers we had recited as we stabbed the banana trees.†
p. 113.1
Whenever we were approaching a roadblock, I would quietly start reciting prayers that I hoped would aid my passing through it.†
p. 212.5

Definitions:

(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)
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.