in geometry, those which have the antecedents and consequents of the same ratio in both figures. See Geometry.

RECITATIVO; in music, a kind of singing that differs but little from ordinary pronunciation, such as that in which the several parts of the liturgy are rehearsed in cathedrals; or that wherein the actors commonly deliver themselves on the theatre at the opera, when they are to express some action or passion, to relate some event, or reveal some design.