About The Word Recapitulate
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Recapitulate
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What's The Definition Of Recapitulate?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Recapitulate: recap | repeat | reprise | reprize Related Terms | Find terms related to Recapitulate: See Also | double | duplicate | play | reduplicate | rehash | replicate | resume | retrograde | spiel | sum up | summarise | summarize Recapitulate In Webster's Dictionary \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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