The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony. [1913 Webster]
A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration. Addison. [1913 Webster]
That which is recited; a story; a narration. [1913 Webster]
A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital. [1913 Webster]
The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation. Burn. [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Account; rehearsal; recitation; narration; description; explanation; enumeration; detail; narrative. See Account.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Recital, n.
1 the act or an instance of reciting or being recited.
2 the performance of a programme of music by a solo instrumentalist or singer or by a small group.
3 (foll. by of) a detailed account of (connected things or facts); a narrative.
4 Law the part of a legal document that states the facts.

Derivative

recitalist n.

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THESAURUS

Recital

Philharmonic concert, account, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, band concert, chalk talk, chamber concert, concert, copy, critique, debate, declamation, description, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dwelling upon, elaboration, entertainment, enumeration, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, going over, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, interpretation, invective, iteration, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, musical performance, musical program, musicale, narration, narrative, object lesson, oration, pep talk, performance, peroration, philharmonic, philippic, pitch, pop concert, pops, popular concert, practicing, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, presentation, program, program of music, prom, promenade concert, public speech, reading, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recitation, recountal, recounting, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, relation, rendition, repetition, report, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, review, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, service of music, set speech, set task, show, skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, story, summary, summing up, symphony concert, tale-telling, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, telling, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, version, yarn spinning

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ROGET THESAURUS

Recital

Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

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