Word Finder - recapitulate

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To summarize or repeat in concise form.

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The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.

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(of an organism) During an individual's development, to pass through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.

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To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).

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.

Let us briefly recapitulate the steps of the series.

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.

There is no need for psychological development to recapitulate historical development.

I shall now recapitulate what the police have done in the matter.

One consequence of this belief that andragogy should recapitulate pedagogy is that a great misunderstanding of adult literacy education occurs.

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.

Like Number Five, he can only recapitulate what was happened before, having stalled in his personal evolution.

Let us recapitulate the history of the bill and see the part contributed to its career by each wheel in the machine.

It should then recapitulate the original motivation and reassess the state of the field in the light of this new contribution.

At the end of the presentation, the summary provides a way to recapitulate the main points you 've made.

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.

It would be impossible to recapitulate here the great quantity of material in the shape of memoirs which has come down, but mention must be made of those of John Chrysostom Pasek, a nobleman of Masovia, who has left us very graphic accounts of life and society in Poland; after a variety of adventures and many a well-fought battle, he returned to the neighbourhood of Cracow, where he died between 1699 and 1701.

To recapitulate the doctrine more succinctly, men originally said, in Sanskrit (or some Aryan speech more ancient still), "fire is got by rubbing or boring;" nothing could have been more scientific and straightforward.

This section should deal with the interpretation of the results and not recapitulate them.