Definition for RE-HEARSE

RE-HEARSE, v.t. [rehers'.]

  1. To recite; to repeat the words of a passage or composition; to repeat the words of another. When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul. – 1 Sam. xvii.
  2. To narrate or recount events or transactions. There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. – Judg. v. Acts xi.
  3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse tragedy.

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