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recapitulate, v.|riːkəˈpɪtjʊleɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of late L. recapitulāre: see re- and capitulate v.]
1. a. trans. To go over or repeat again, properly in a more concise manner; to give the heads or substance of (what has been already said); to summarize, restate briefly.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 7/1 Wherof as mention is touched before, so breeflye to recapitulate the same. 1607T. Rogers 39 Art. Pref. 14 These and many more (too many here to be recapitulate)..this first subscription brought first to light. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. viii. 275 Judge Markham in a grave speech did recapitulate select and collate the materiall points on either side. 1699Bentley Phal. 108, I would summ up the Particulars of this Second Head, if the Examiner's Performance could bear recapitulating. 1768H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 121, I will recapitulate the most material arguments that tend to disprove what has been asserted. 1783Burke Sp. E. Ind. Bill Wks. 1826 IV. 27 It only remains..for me just to recapitulate some heads. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 205 All that I feel bound to do is to recapitulate the alternative possibilities. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 404 Socrates recapitulates the argument of Cebes.
absol.1821Craig Lect. Drawing, etc. viii. 428 My object being now merely to recapitulate, I give you the rules without the reasoning. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 485 Let me recapitulate—for there is no harm in repetition.
b. transf. in Biol. of young animals: (see recapitulation 1 b). Also absol.
1879E. R. Lankester Advancem. Sc. i. (1890) 43 Suppose..that the Barnacles..instead of recapitulating in their early life, were to develope directly from the egg to the adult form. 1879Athenæum 19 July 83/2 The fact that in their early development young animals recapitulate their ancestral history.
c. Mus. To restate, usu. in similar but distinct form, a musical theme which has been developed in an intervening section. Cf. recapitulation1 1 c.
1959D. Cooke Lang. Music v. 250 The second subject of the finale picks up the six-note chromatic scale..; when it is recapitulated, the same notes are used in the bass.
2. a. To bring together again; to sum up or unite in one. rare. Also refl.
1607Bp. Andrewes Serm. Nativity iii. (1631) 21 That this Mysterie is..the fulfilling of all Prophecies; That all Moses veiles, and all the Prophets' visions, are recapitulate in it. 1629Donne Serm. Wks. 1839 V. 436 Truly even this first work,..to recapitulate ourselves, to assemble and muster ourselves [etc.]. 1870W. Graham Lect. Ephes. i. 46 Jesus Christ is the Head in whom all things are to be recapitulated. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iii. §3. 197 The two offices were alike recapitulated in the person of Him who is at once our Prophet and our Priest.
†b. intr. To come together into one. Obs.—1
1623Bp. Andrewes Serm. Nativity xvi. (1631) 152 The Head is (as it were) the Summe of all sense; motion, speech, understanding, all recapitulate into the Head.
Hence recaˈpitulating ppl. a.
1845A. Symington in Ess. Chr. Union viii. 467 The Redeemer in heaven is the grand recapitulating Head in which redeemed and holy creatures..are to be united. |