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English Dictionary: rehearse by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rehearse
v
  1. engage in a rehearsal (of) [syn: rehearse, practise, practice]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rehearse \Re*hearse"\, v. i.
      To recite or repeat something for practice. [bd]There will we
      rehearse.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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