reciter (resiter)

[OF. reciteur, recit a teur, F. récitateur = It. recit a tore, Narrative songs were committed to memory, and delivered down from one reciter to another. Ep . Percy , On Anc. Metrical Romances, § 1. ( Latham .) reciting-note (rē-sī'ting-not), n . In chanting , a note or tone on which several or many syllables are recited in monotone. In Greg or i an music this tone is regularly the dominant of the mode, but in Anglican chants it may be any tone. Usually every chant contains two, or a double chant four, reciting-notes. reck (rek), v.; pret. and pp. recked (formerly raught ). [Formerly also reak, sometimes mi pelled wreak; rozte, roghte, rohte ), Dan. rögte, care, tend, etc.); cf. AS. * rōc (not recorded) =OHG.ruoh, ruah, MHG. ruoch, care, heed; perhaps akin to Gr. ἀλέγειν (for * ἀρέγειν ), have care, heed, reck.] I. in trans. 1. To take heed; have a care; mind; heed; care: usually in a negative clause, often followed by of. And whether the i had good ansuere or euell, the i raught neuer. Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry , p. 2. Sith that he myghte do her no companye, He ne roghte not a myte for to dye. Chaucer , Complaint of Mars, 1. 126. He recketh not, be so he wynne, Of that another man shall lese. Gower, Conf. Amant., ii. I reck not though I end my life to-day. Of God, or hell, or worse, Shak., T. and C., v. 6. 26. He reck'd not. Milton, P. L., ii. 50. Light recking of his cause, but battling for their own. Scott , Vision of Don Roderick, The Vision, st. 45. 21. To think. For the ther ys oon, y reke , That can well Frensche speke. MS . Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, 1. 115. ( Hall i well .) II. trans . To take heed of; care for; regard; consider; be concerned about. [Obsolete or poetical.] This son of mine, not recking danger,... came hither to do this kind office, to my unspeakable grief. Sir P. Sidney. An' may you better reck the rede Than ever did th' adviser! Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend. It recks (impersonal), it concerns. Of night, or loneline , it recks me not. Milton , Comus, 1. 404. reckent, v. An obsolete (the more correct) form of reckon . reckle (rek'les), a. [Formerly also a ibilated rechle , retchle , and mi pelled wreck le , wretch le ; Is likned to a fi ch that is water les- This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 179. First when thu spekist be not rekles , Kepe feete and finger is and handes still in pese. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. 2. Not recking of consequences; desperately heedle , as from folly, pa ion, or perversity; impetuously or rashly adventurous. I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckle what I do to spite the world. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 1. 110. Unhappily, James, instead of becoming a mediator, became the fiercest and most reckle of partisans. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. =Syn. 2. Enterprising, Rash, etc. (see adventurous ), incautious, unwary, unconcerned, indifferent, thoughtle . See list under rash1. reckle ly (rek'les-li), adv. [ 5002 reckle ne (rek'les-nes), n . [Formerly also a ibilated rechle ne , retchle ne ; rechelesne e , recchelesnes , rēceleás- nes , rēceleás , reckle : see reckle and -ne .] The state or quality of being reckle or heed- le ; perverse or desperate rashne . reckling (rek'ling), n . and a . [ Also ruckling ; prob. reklingr , an outcast, reka , drive, to , drift, etc. (= wreak ) , + -lingr = E. -ling1 . Cf.wretch cock , the smallest of a brood of fowls.] I. n. 1. The smallest and weakest one in a lit- ter, as of puppies, kittens, or pigs; the runt. Hence - 2. A helple babe. There lay the reckling , one But one hour old! What said the happy sire? Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. II. a . Small; puny; stunted. A mother dotes upon the reckling child More than the strong. Sir H. Taylor , Ph. van Artevelde, II., v. 3. reckoning II. in trans. 1. To make a computation; cast up an account; figure up. And when he had begune to recken , won was browghte vnto hym whiche ought hym ten thousande talent tes. Tyndale , Mat. xviii. 24. 2. To make an accounting; settle accounts; come to an adjustment or to terms: commonly followed by with. "Parfay," seistow, "som tyme he rekne shal,..: For he noght helpeth needfulle in her nede." Chaucer , Man of Law's Tale, 1. 12. The lorde of those servauntes cam, and reckened with them. Tyndale, Mat. xxv. 19. Know that ye shall to-morrow be placed before God, and reckoned with according to your deeds. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 104. 3t. To give an account of one's self; make an explanation. Pandar us, withouten rekenynge , Out wente anon to Eleyne and Deiphebus. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 1640. reckmastert (rek'måster), n. [Irreg. + master.] A profe ional computer and accountant. [Rare.] The common logist, reck master , or arithmetician. Dr. John Dee , Preface to Euclid (1570). reckon (rek'n), v. [Early mod. E. recken; LG. rekenen = OHG. rehhanon, MHG. rechenen, a subject; reason; discriminate. Nothing at all, to rekin rycht, Different, in to Goddis sycht, Than bene the purest Creature That euir wes form it of nature. Lauder , Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 63. 5. To base a calculation or expectation; rely; count; depend: with on or upon. My Lord Amba ador Aston reckons upon you, that you will be one of his Train at his first Audience in Madrid. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 28. Thus they [men] adore the goodly scheme by which they brought all these things to pa , and reckon upon it as sure and infallible for the future. Bp. Atterbury , Sermons, I. vii. In the whole corporation [of Newcastle-on-Tyne), the government could not reckon on more than four votes. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., viii. G. rechnen = Icel. reikna (for * rekna? ) = Sw. räkna = Dan. regne, reckon, = Goth. rahnjan (for * raknjan?), reckon; a secondary verb, with formative -n (see -en1), parallel with another verb (the common one in AS.), AS. reccan (pret. reahte, rehte ), narrate, tell, say, explain, expound, = OS. rekkian, narrate, explain, = OHG. rachjan, recchen, narrate, explain, reckon; these verbs being derived from a noun, AS. racu, f., an account or reckoning, an account or narrative, an exposition, explanation, history, comedy, = OHG. rahha, f., a subject, thing, = Icel. rök, neut. pl., a reason, ground, origin; prob. akin to Gr. λόγος, an account, saying, word, reason, λέγειν, say: see Logos, logic, legend, etc. The AS. verb reccan, narrate, is generally confused with reccan, dilion so will he break all my bones. Isa. xxxviii. 13. rect, rule, also stretch: see rack, retch. The former spelling recken is historically the proper one, the termination -on, as with beckon, being prop.- en: see -en1.] I. trans. 1. To count, or count up; compute; calculate; tell over by items or one by one: often with up. No man vpon molde schuld now deuise Men richlier a-raid to rekene alle thinges. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1934. I have not art to reckon my groans. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 121. If we reckon up only those days which God hath accepted of our lives, a life of good years will hardly be a span long. Sir T. Browne , To a Friend. To reckon right it is required, (1.) That the mind distinguish carefully two ideas which are different one from another only by the addition or subtraction of one unit. (2.) That it retain in memory the names or marks of the several combinations from an unit to that number. Locke , Human Understanding, II. xvi. 7. 2. To take into account; include in an account or category; set to one's account; impute; charge or credit. Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousne . Rom, iv. 9. Also these Yles of Ynde, which beth evene azenst us, beth noght reckned in the Climates; for the i ben azenst us that ben in the lowe Contree. IMG:content-1739.png:[blocks in formation] We ought not to recken and coumpt the thynge harde That bryngeth ioye and pleasure afterwarde. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 339. For that they reckened this demeanoure attempted, not so specially again ste the other Lordes, as agaynste the Kinge hymselfe. Sir T. More, Works, p. 43. Though it be not expre ly spoken against in Scripture, yet I reckon it plainly enough implied in the Scripture. Latimer, Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. This is reckoned a very polite and fashionable amusement here. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, 1xxxvi. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Emerson, Friendship. =Syn. 1. To enumerate, cast, cast up. - 1 and 2. Compute , Count , etc. (see calculate ). 6. To hold a supposition or impre ion; have a notion; think; suppose; gue : as, I reckon a storm is coming. [The use of reckon in this sense, though regularly developed and found in good literature, like the corresponding sense of the transitive verb (definition 4), has by reason of its frequency in colloquial speech in some parts of the United States, especially in the South (where it occupies a place like that of gue in New England), come to be regarded as provincial or vulgar.] I reckoned [ thought , R. V., margin] till morning that as a For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Rom. viii. 18. What, you are a courtier, I reckon? No wonder you wish the pre was demolished. Foote, The Bankrupt, iii. There is one thing I must needs add, though I reckon it will appear to many as a very unreasonable paradox. Swift, Nobles and Commons, v. I reckon you will be selling out the whole - it's needle making twa bites of a cherry. Scott , St. Ronan's Well, x. I reckon they will always be "the girls" to us, even if they're eighty. Harper's Mag ., LXXVIII. 444. 7. To expect; intend. [Obsolete or colloq.] Another sweet invention, The which in brief I reckon to name. Undaunted London derry (Child's Ballads, VII. 249). To reckon for, to give an account for; be answerable for. If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day. Bp . Sanders on . To reckon without one's host. See host2 .