recapitulativeadj.

1836 J. H. Ingraham Lafitte: Pirate of Gulf II. iii. iv. 71 Lafitte..had calmly listened to the recapitulative defence of the ringleader.

1851 C. Dickens Let. 2 Feb. (1988) VI. 276 I think..[your paper] may be made a little more original, and a little less recapitulative of the usual stories in the books.

1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 692 The economy of nutrition [in plants] has probably generally led to the suppression of recapitulative structural details.

1933 Language 9 25 Inasmuch as the purpose of this work was essentially historical and recapitulative, Walde did not advance new opinions of his own.

1959 Jrnl. Amer. Musicol. Soc. 12 195/2 Expositive, elaborative, and recapitulative sections are interlaced through the work.

1975 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 272 42 A review of the relations between phylogeny and ontogeny confirms the essentially recapitulative nature of trinucleid ontogenies.

2004 New Yorker 15 Nov. 64/1 The front page of Le Monde usually begins with a headline that is, as often as not, recapitulative rather than declarative.