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Recapitulate   /rˌikəpˈɪtʃəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Recapitulate

verb
1.
Summarize briefly.  Synonym: recap.
2.
Repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life.
3.
Repeat an earlier theme of a composition.  Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize.





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"Recapitulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... a point we seem to have missed. If I may recapitulate, the idea is to take this ship Gilgamesh to Incognita and make it appear as though she had crashed there while attempting to land. I understand that the ship has been buried in the polar cap; though she must have been melted out if the people on Crusoe examined the engines. Of course ...
— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell
... Bayley, I will take the matter in hand. I will write to Barkley and tell him that Norris has now come home, and that I must therefore take up the matter at the point at which I dropped it. I will recapitulate to him the reasons that there are for supposing that he stole the money,—first, his interest in Frank's disgrace; secondly, the fact that he was seen writing a letter in printed characters on the day on which the note was sent ...
— Captain Bayley's Heir: - A Tale of the Gold Fields of California • G. A. Henty
... the deroute of his troops, was compelled with a few faithful followers to fly towards Paris, and Prince Napoleon remained master of the field of battle. It is needless to recapitulate the bulletin which he published the day after the occasion, so soon as he and his secretaries were in a condition to write: eagles, pyramids, rainbows, the sun of Austerlitz, &c., figured in the proclamation, in close imitation ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... we may recapitulate our hypotheses. Stupor represents, psychologically speaking, the simplest and completest regression. Adaptation to the actual environment being abandoned, attention reverts to earlier interests, ...
— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch
... To recapitulate the symptoms of spasmodic colic: The history of the case, the type of horse, the suddenness of the attack, the increased intestinal sounds, the intervals of ease (which become of shorter duration as the case progresses), ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture


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