What's the difference between recite and rhapsodize?

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.
  • (n.) A recital.

Example Sentences:

Rhapsodize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody
  • (v. i.) To utter rhapsodies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Findings reveal that for this age group, health is an abiding vitality emanating through moments of rhapsodic reverie in generating fulfillment.
  • (2) But whereas Hello America is full of deadpan humour, the mood that pervades The Unlimited Dream Company is joyful and rhapsodic.
  • (3) The idea of being a straight man reacting to the crazy draws out Rudd's rhapsodic celebration of early David Letterman .
  • (4) But he was as male as a wild animal; hunky, husky, sensual, and incoherent or rhapsodic, depending on which style worked best with the young woman of the moment.
  • (5) He then went on to attack the rest of the press for "rhapsodic" coverage of Obama and described the New York Times as "as far left as you can get".
  • (6) As Fats Waller rhapsodizes that the "feet's too big," he finds a convenient way to displace his symbiotic and erotic anxieties vis-à-vis women.

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