intransitive verb
transitive verb
-·lat·ed, -·lat·ing to repeat briefly, as in an outline; summarize
Origin of recapitulate
from past participle of Late Latin recapitulare: see re- and capitulate
The manager would often recapitulate all of the details at the close of his team's monthly meeting.
To recapitulate is to restate or briefly summarize what you have said or the information presented.
When you give a long speech about global warming and you sum it up at the end with just a sentence or two, that last sentence or two is an example of when you recapitulate the information you presented.
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recapitulate
verb
re·ca·pit·u·lat·ed, re·ca·pit·u·lat·ing, re·ca·pit·u·latesverb
transitive- To repeat in concise form.
- Biology To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
verb
intransitiveTo make a summary.
Origin of recapitulate
Latin recapitulāre recapitulāt- re- re- capitulum main point, heading diminutive of caput capit- head ; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- re·ca·pit′u·la′tive re·ca·pit′u·la·to′ry
adjective
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present recapitulates, present participle recapitulating, simple past and past participle recapitulated)
Origin
From Late Latin recapitulatus, past participle of recapitulare (“to go over the main points of a thing again"), from Latin re- (“again") + capitulum (“a head, main part, chapter"); see capitulate.
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recapitulate - Medical Definition
v.
- To repeat in concise form; summarize.
- Biology To appear to repeat the evolutionary stages of the species during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
Related Forms:
- re·ca·pit′u·la′tive re·ca·pit′u·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē)
adj.
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Sentence Examples
- It is now necessary first to recapitulate the chief points in the problem, and then to attempt to explain them by a comparison of the myths of various races.
- To understand the reasons for this, it is necessary briefly to recapitulate the course of events in that country since Gordon had left it in 1879.
- It is unnecessary in this place to recapitulate the many results which had accumulated by the end of the 18th century, or to discuss the labours and theories of individual workers since these receive attention under biographical headings; in this article only the salient features in the history of our science can be treated.
- It is a long document of 63 clauses, in whi4 Archbishop Langton and a committee of the barons had en.deavoured to recapitulate all their grievances, and to obtain redress for them.
- They give no historical account of the life and teaching of their prophet, but rather are, so to say, versus memoriales, which recapitulate the main points of interest, often again in brief outlines.
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Words near recapitulate in the dictionary
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