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Recapitulation

noun

Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species. Synonym: palingenesis. Antonym: cenogenesis.

(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated.

A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion. Synonyms: recap, review.

(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement).

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"Recapitulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... interview must be decisive. Know, once for all, that such a reconciliation as you would desire never can or shall take place. Spare me the pain of recapitulation. It is enough to say that, once thrown from you, I cannot nor will not be resumed at your pleasure and fantasy. Although injured in the tenderest point, I forgive all that has passed, and shall be happy to receive you as a friend, ...

— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,—using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat." In uttering the last clause, Mr. Casaubon leaned over the elbow of his chair, and swayed his head up and down, apparently as a muscular outlet instead of that recapitulation which would ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... were actually produced on the third day, including the trees of paradise; and what is said of the trees of paradise being planted after the work of the six days is to be understood, they say, by way of recapitulation. Whence our text reads: "The Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... me. But 'neath your disdain it was transmuted oddly." He checked the passion that was vibrating in his voice and resumed after a pause, in the calm, slow tones, soft and musical, that were his own. "There is scarce the need for so much recapitulation. When the power was mine I bent you unfairly to my will; you did as much by me when the power suddenly became yours. It was a strange war between us, and I accepted its conditions. To-day, when the ...

— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini

... not now enter into any further recapitulation of the journey from the Falls of Niagara to Toronto, or from Toronto to Kingston, save to say that some very intelligent citizens of the United States from Philadelphia were my companions on board ...

— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle

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