Word Finder - recapitulation

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A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.

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The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.

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The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.

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The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.

Joachim was the first to apply the "recapitulation" theory to Revelation.

In the last chapter I shall give a brief recapitulation of the whole work, and a few concluding remarks.

It reappears in some strength in the code of Canute, but the latter is chiefly a recapitulation of former enactments.

To prevent discontinuity of results at this stage, recapitulation from an analytical point of view is desirable.

To the law of " recapitulation " he unfortunately applied Hyatt's term " parallelism," a term which is used now in another sense.

New options for autoimmune disease So far, the story of immune therapy has been a recapitulation of themes from the last century.

A relentless energy pushes the music along, until a recapitulation of the opening leads to the breath-taking close.

This law of recapitulation, subsequently termed the " biogenetic law " by Ernest Haeckel, was the greatest philosophic contribution of this period, and proved to be not only one of the bulwarks of the evolution theory but one of the most important principles in the method of palaeontology.

The Zoea was formerly regarded as a recapitulation of an ancestral form, but there can be no doubt that its peculiarities are the result of secondary modification.

All in all, the post-left perspective seems even less cogent in the wake of McQuinn's splenetic recapitulation.

It is in E major, while Beethoven chooses to use trumpets in C. The only note which these can play in E major is the tonic, to which they are accordingly confined until the recapitulation of the second subject.

The acquired experience and observations indicate that several aspects of successful repair protocols involve the engineered recapitulation of certain embryonic events.

Thus the recapitulation law, which had been built up independently from the observations and speculations on vertebrates by Lorenz Ofen (1779-1851), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781-1833), St Hilaire, Karl Ernst von Baer (1;92-1876) and others, and had been applied (1842-1843) by Karl Vogt (1817-1895) and Agassiz, in their respective fields of observation, to comparison of individual stages with the adults of the same group in preceding geological periods, furnished the key to the determination of the ancestry of the invertebrates generally.

It was the application of Fritz Miller's law of recapitulation which gave the chief stimulus to embryological investigations between 1865 and 1890; and, though it is now recognized that " recapitulation " is vastly and bewilderingly modified by special adaptations in every case, yet the principle has served, and still serves, as a guide of great value.

The first of these is the recapitulation theory which Tyconius originated and Augustine adopted, and which has been revived in later times by Hofmann, Hengstenberg and others.

Even in that earliest part of his book which is mainly a recapitulation of his experiences and work in the reign of Josiah, his tone is one of absolute hopelessness as to the future of the nation.

In following the discovery of the law of recapitulation among palaeontologists we have clearly stated the chief contribution of palaeontology to the science of ontogeny - namely, the correspondences and differences between FIG.

The first attempts to reconstruct the genealogical history of the Crustacea started from the assumption that the " theory of recapitulation " could be applied to their larval history.