recapitulate

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To recapitulate, the heat added to a body is divided as follows:

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  1. transitive verb To repeat in concise form.
  2. transitive verb Biology To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
  3. intransitive verb To make a summary.

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  • What is necessary to the completeness of the story at this stage is not to recapitulate, but to take up some of the loose ends of threads woven in and follow them through until the clear and comprehensive picture of events can be seen Some things it would be difficult to reproduce in any picture of the art and the times. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • To recapitulate: Of the 29,073,233 persons ten years old and over engaged in occupations 0.9 per cent own 70.5 per cent of total wealth 29.0 per cent own 25.3 per cent of total wealth 70.1 per cent own 4.2 per cent of total wealth Startling as these figures are, it will be evident upon reflection that they do not adequately represent the amount of wealth concentration. —  Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles
  • In the heavy atmosphere of a period of oppression and impotence the dejected soul longed with incredible ardor to fly to the radiant abode of heaven To recapitulate, the Oriental religions acted upon the senses, the intellect and the conscience at the same time, and therefore gained a hold on the entire man. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
  • To recapitulate, they are 1. —  Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
  • To recapitulate: The First Tennessee, numbering originally, 1,250; recruited from time to time, 150; Fulcher's battalion, 400; the Twenty-seventh Tennessee, 1,200; number of conscripts (at the lowest estimate), 200--making the sum total 3,200 men that belonged to our regiment during the war. —  "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
 

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  1. Latin recapitulāre, recapitulāt- : re-, re- + capitulum, main point, heading, diminutive of caput, capit-, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Late Latin recapitulatus, past participle of recapitulare (later Italian ricapitolare =Spanish Portuguese Provencal recapitular =F. récapituder), go over the main points of a thing again, from Latin re, again, + capitulum, a head, main part, chapter (later Middle Latin capitulare, capitulate): see capitulate.
 

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