Definition of "recite" []

• To repeat or utter aloud (something rehearsed or memorized), especially before an audience. (verb-transitive)
• To relate in detail. See Synonyms at describe. (verb-transitive)
• To list or enumerate. (verb-transitive)
• To deliver a recitation. (verb-intransitive)
• To repeat lessons prepared or memorized. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Bush could decapitate Christianne Amanpour on CNN (though he'd probably prefer to do it on Fox News), and claim he's learned she's part of a sleeper cell and was about to recite a code word - and that would be legal according to Gonzalez, because he was acting as Commander in Chief on the War in Terror."
• "As the children variously sing, tap-dance or recite from the works of T. H."
• "The constitutional catechism that Supreme Court nominees must recite is a way of taking the temperature, so to speak, of particular constitutional controversies and the degree to which they have reached settlement."