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re⋅hearse

[ri-hurs]

verb, -hearsed, -hears⋅ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.

2.	to drill or train (an actor, musician, etc.) by rehearsal, as for some performance or part.

3.	to relate the facts or particulars of; recount.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to rehearse a play, part, etc.; participate in a rehearsal.

Origin:
1300–50; ME rehersen, rehercen < MF rehercier to repeat, equiv. to re- re- + hercier to strike, harrow (deriv. of herce, herse a harrow); see hearse

Related forms:

re⋅hears⋅a⋅ble, adjective

re⋅hears⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
3. delineate, describe, portray; narrate, recapitulate. See relate.

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re·hearse (rĭ-hûrs')

v. re·hearsed, re·hears·ing, re·hears·es

v. tr.

1. To practice (a part in a play, for example) in preparation for a public performance.
2. To direct in rehearsal: rehearsed the orchestra.
3. To retell or recite.
4. To list or enumerate: rehearsed her complaints in a letter. See Synonyms at describe.
To perfect or cause to perfect (an action) by repetition. See Synonyms at practice.
1. To retell or recite.
2. To list or enumerate: rehearsed her complaints in a letter. See Synonyms at describe.

v. intr.
To practice something, such as a speech, before presenting it publicly.

[Middle English rehercen, to repeat, from Old French rehercier : re-, re- + hercier, to harrow (from herce, harrow; see hearse).]
re·hears'er n.

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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.

When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul. --1 Sam. xvii. 31.

2. To narrate; to relate; to tell.

Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. --Judg. . v. 11.

3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.]

He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. --Dickens.

Syn: To recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe; tell; relate; narrate.

Rehearse

Re*hearse"\, v. i. To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse." --Shak.

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Language Translation for : rehearse

Spanish: ensayar,

German: proben,

Japanese: けいこする

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rehearse

c.1300, "to give an account of," from Anglo-Fr. rehearser, O.Fr. rehercier "to go over again, repeat," lit. "to rake over," from re- "again" + hercier "to rake, harrow" (see hearse). Meaning "to say over again" is from 1340; sense of "practice a play, part, etc." is from 1579. Rehearsal dinner first attested 1953.

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