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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



... try first to recapitulate the facts which make me regard the Russian experiment as a failure, and then to seek out the causes ...
— The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism • Bertrand Russell

... To recapitulate, Farnham had announced his intention of keeping it until the necessity arose for having it cut from his finger. Still, it seemed he had not kept it, and it had not been cut off. The conviction was strong within ...
— The House by the Lock • C. N. Williamson

... conclude. In the original Lives of the Popes, we often discover the city and republic of Rome: and the events of the xivth and xvth centuries are preserved in the rude and domestic chronicles which I have carefully inspected, and shall recapitulate in the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

... epistle, when I received an official notification from the Colonel, directing me to proceed to Kilrush, then and there to afford all aid and assistance in suppressing illicit distillation, when called on for that purpose; and other similar duties too agreeable to recapitulate. Alas! Alas! Othello's occupation: was indeed gone! The next morning at sun-rise saw me on my march, with what appearance of gaiety I could muster, but in reality very much chopfallen at my banishment, and invoking sundry things ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever

... only recapitulate, historically, what your highness, and along with you a great portion of the citizens of Denmark and Europe, have seen, I may venture to call that an unequal combat, which was maintained, and supported, for four hours and a half, with unexampled courage ...
— The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. II (of 2) • James Harrison


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