recitation

recitation
/res'i tay"sheuhn/, n.
1. an act of reciting.
2. a reciting or repeating of something from memory, esp. formally or publicly.
3. oral response by a pupil or pupils to a teacher on a prepared lesson.
4. a period of classroom instruction.
5. an elocutionary delivery of a piece of poetry or prose, without the text, before an audience.
6. a piece so delivered or for such delivery.
[1475-85; < L recitation- (s. of recitatio), equiv. to recitat(us) (ptp. of recitare to RECITE) + -ion- -ION]

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