hearsal

English

Etymology

Apheretic alteration of rehearsal.

Noun

hearsal (plural hearsals)

1. (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 […]