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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. Chaucer. When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul. 1 Sam. xvii. 31.

2. To narrate; to relate; to tell. Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. Judg. . v. 11.

3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.] He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. Dickens.

Synonyms: recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe; tell; relate; narrate.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse." Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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