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Definition of Recapitulate
1. Verb. Summarize briefly. "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
Generic synonyms: Resume, Sum Up, Summarise, Summarize
Specialized synonyms: Hash Over, Rehash, Retrograde
Derivative terms: Recap, Recapitulation
2. Verb. Repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life.
3. Verb. Repeat an earlier theme of a composition.
Category relationships: Music
Generic synonyms: Play, Spiel
Derivative terms: Recapitulation, Repeat
Definition of Recapitulate
1. v. t. 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.
2. v. i. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
Definition of Recapitulate
1. Verb. to summarize or repeat in concise form ¹
2. Verb. to repeat the evolutionary stages of an organism during its embryonic development ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recapitulate
1. capitulate [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES] - See also: capitulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recapitulate
Literary usage of Recapitulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New York (State) Canal commissioners, New York (State), Canal Commissioners (1877)
"I have not thought it necessary to recapitulate the improvements suggested in
their several reports, but would express my approval of the recommendations so ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order with Copious Illustrations by George Crabb (1904)
"To RECITE, REHEARSE, and recapitulate are modes of repetition, conveying each
some accessory idea. To recite is to repeat in a formal manner; ..."
3. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"REPEAT, from the Latin repeto to seek, or go .over again, is the general term,
including only the common idea, lo RECITE, REHEARSE, and recapitulate, ..."
4. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"To recapitulate: the efficient force of the several forms of which an army thus
constituted is susceptible, would be as follows: The half pay peace ..."
5. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... to enlarge on some points, which may not have been sufficiently understood ;
to recapitulate to our fellow-subjects the blessings which we are empowered ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1899)
"... that Canon Driver has done for its matei and ethnological side ; and his
chapters here the " Hebrew Authority " recapitulate down to i and Persia which ..."
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