(v. t.) To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
(v. t.) To urge; to enjoin.
(v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
(v. t.) To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.
(v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.
(v. t.) To notify of a proceeding in court.
Example Sentences:
Recite
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
(v. t.) To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
(v. t.) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
(v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.