Meaning of RECAPITULATE
| Pronunciation: | | `reeku'pichu`leyt
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- [v] summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
- [v] repeat an earlier theme of a musical composition
- [v] repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life; of animals
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| | Synonyms: | | recap, repeat, reprise, reprize |
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| | See Also: | | double, duplicate, play, reduplicate, rehash, replicate, resume, retrograde, spiel, sum up, summarise, summarize | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Re*ca*pit"u*late\, v. t. [L. recapitulare,
recapitulatum; pref. re- re- + capitulum a small head,
chapter, section. See {Capitulate}.]
To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument,
or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points,
or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
\Re`ca*pit"u*late\, v. i.
To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been
previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
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