Defn: To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
RECITE
Re*cite", n.
Defn: A recital. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
RECITER
Re*cit"er, n.
Defn: One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.
RECK Reck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recked (obs. imp. Roughte); p. pr. & vb. n. Recking.] Etym: [AS. reccan, remccan, to care for; akin to OS. rokian, OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. rækja, also to E. reckon, rake an implement. See Rake, and cf. Reckon.]
1. To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard. [Archaic] This son of mine not recking danger. Sir P. Sidney. And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser. Burns.
2. To concern; — used impersonally. [Poetic] What recks it them Milton.
RECK
Reck, v. i.
Defn: To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; — often
followed by of. [Archaic]
Then reck I not, when I have lost my life. Chaucer.
I reck not though I end my life to-day. Shak.
Of me she recks not, nor my vain desire. M. Arnold.