Rehearse

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rehearse \Re*hearse"\, v. i.
     To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we
     rehearse." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Rehearse \Re*hearse"\ (r?*h?rs"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Rehearsed} (-h?rst"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rehearsing}.] [OE.
     rehercen, rehersen, OF. reherser, rehercier, to harrow over
     again; pref. re- re- + hercier to harrow, fr. herce a harrow,
     F. herse. See {Hearse}.]
     1. To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over
        again; to recite. --Chaucer.
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              When the words were heard which David spake, they
              rehearsed them before Saul.           --1 Sam. xvii.
                                                    31.
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     2. To narrate; to relate; to tell.
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              Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. --Judg. .
                                                    v. 11.
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     3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and
        improvement, before a public representation; as, to
        rehearse a tragedy.
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     4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.]
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              He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his
              having seen her.                      --Dickens.
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     Syn: To recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe;
          tell; relate; narrate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rehearse
       v : engage in a rehearsal (of) [syn: {practise}, {practice}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "rehearse":
     add up, allegorize, announce, apprentice, battologize, break,
     break in, break the news, breed, bring up, bring word, cast up,
     cipher up, condition, count up, cultivate, describe, detail,
     develop, discipline, drill, exercise, fable, fabulize, fetch up,
     fictionalize, figure up, fill, fit, foot up, form, foster,
     give a report, give an encore, give tidings of, go over,
     go through, groom, house-train, housebreak, improve, inform,
     inventory, itemize, iterate, lick into shape, mythicize, mythify,
     mythologize, narrate, novelize, nurse, nurture, pad, practice,
     prepare, put in tune, put to school, raise, ready, reaffirm, rear,
     reassert, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, recount, rehash,
     reissue, reiterate, relate, repeat, report, reprint, restate,
     resume, retail, retell, review, reword, romance, rumor, run over,
     run through, say over, say over again, score up, send to school,
     state, storify, study, sum, sum up, summarize, summate,
     take in hand, tally up, tautologize, tell, tell a story, tot up,
     total, total up, tote up, train, unfold a tale, write up