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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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... entrance, in the avenue leading to the right hand. On the marble couch within are stretched two figures, carved in stone and drest in the antique garb of the Middle Ages. It is the tomb of Abelard and Heloise. The history of these unfortunate lovers is too well known to need recapitulation; but perhaps it is not so well known how often their ashes were disturbed in the slumber of the grave. Abelard died in the monastery of Saint Marcel, and was buried in the vaults of the church. His body was afterward removed to the ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... of soldiers still marched past at rapid pace, tuning their steady tramp to the cadence of their songs of triumph. But the great feature of the occasion—the conqueror himself—had ridden by; and what yet remained was but a faint recapitulation of the glories which had gone before. Therefore the patricians retired from their balconies, the horsemen abandoned their stations and plunged down the many streets which led out from the Forum, and the crowd of slaves and menial citizens, already rendered so indistinct ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... main sources of overseas supply are too well known to require recapitulation here. The imports from the Dominions and India and their proportionate contribution to the United Kingdom's total imports and wheat requirements since 1901 have been ...

— Birth Control • Halliday G. Sutherland

... 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 not ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... can do no better than quote the following recapitulation by Dr. Stockham in her famous {298} Tokology: "To give a woman the greatest immunity from suffering during pregnancy, prepare her for a safe and comparatively easy delivery, and insure a speedy recovery, all ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

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