Definition of "recites" [recites]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recite. (verb)

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• "Stuart recites from a William Henry Davis poem in Benjamin Cheever's The Good Nanny: "A poor life is this, if full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare.""
• "The announcer comes over the p.a. system and recites the usual prohibition against cameras and recorders, and asks that the audience turn off its cell phones and other electronic devices."
• "Evaristo apparently composed it while writer-in-residence at the Museum of London and it breathes an intimate connection between the Roman city and today's geography - she uses mainly modern streetnames and toponyms, and has Zuleika a citizen of the racially and sexually diverse metropolis, attended by her Scottish slaves, educated by her husband to the point where she writes and recites her own poetry."