Recitative, 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.

Recknhausen, a strong town of Cologne, in Germany, in the middle territory of that name. The abbeys of its nunnery has power of punishing offenders with death, and the alone is obliged to the vow of chastity.