hearsal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apheretic alteration of rehearsal.
Noun
[edit]hearsal (plural hearsals)
- (obsolete) An act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- With this sad hersall of his heavy stresse / The warlike Damzell was empassiond sore […]