Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of recapitulating.
- noun A summary or concise review.
- noun Music Restatement or reworking of the exposition in the tonic, constituting the third and final section of the typical sonata form.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the appearance in a developing organism of stages that are considered to recapitulate, or repeat in brief stages, the life-history of ancestors, or to resemble adult ancestors. See
recapitulation doctrine . - noun In music, the third division of a movement in sonata form, in which the subjects are taken up afresh and both in the original key. Also called
reprise . - noun The act or process of recapitulating.
- noun In rhetoric, a summary or concise statement or enumeration of the principal points or facts in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay. Also anacephalæosis, enumeration. See
epanodos .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
- noun (Zoöl.) That process of development of the individual organism from the embryonic stage onward, which displays a parallel between the development of an individual animal (ontogeny) and the historical evolution of the species (phylogeny). Some authors recognize two types of recapitulation,
palingenesis , in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced during development; andcenogenesis (kenogenesis orcoenogenesis ), the mode of individual development in which alterations in the development process have changed the original process of recapitulation and obscured the evolutionary pathway.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
subsequent briefrecitement orenumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book. - noun music The third major
section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section. - noun biology The
reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species. - noun theology The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the
Old Testament ; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- noun (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- noun (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- noun a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the recapitulation is as gratuitous as it is insulting and untrue.
Echoes of the Week 1864
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The sixth rule Tichonius calls the recapitulation, which, with sufficient watchfulness, is discovered in difficult parts of Scripture.
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books Saint Augustine 1887
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There was nothing left for it to do but to repeat, in short recapitulation, the course it had traversed, and to prove that it had been buried only after it had expired.
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850
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One bit of sloppiness and his backing of a fruitless theory made him increasingly irrelevant which is actually unfortunate—he was otherwise an interesting, if bombastic and overzealous, thinker who contributed to many disciplines but his theory, called recapitulation or the biogenetic law, was abandoned because his theory didn't fit the facts.
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At a much more popular level, the transfer of the idea of recapitulation into general thinking is exemplified in its expression in a book on child care that was a handbook in many thousands of American homes in the mid-twentieth century.
RECAPITULATION JANE OPPENHEIMER 1968
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Which genealogicall recapitulation in their nationall families and tribes, other people also haue obserued; as the Spaniards, who reckon their descent from Hesperus, before the
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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But you could pretty clearly use this kind of recapitulation argument that way.
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But you could pretty clearly use this kind of recapitulation argument that way.
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But you could pretty clearly use this kind of recapitulation argument that way.
#1678: Part 5 of On the Soul and the Resurrection by St. Gregory of Nyssa « Maria Lectrix 2009
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Developmental genes has nothing to do with "recapitulation".
Behe's Test 2008
erinmckean commented on the word recapitulation
"This is the theory of recapitulation, or what is sometimes called the biogenetic law: ontogeny (the development of the individual organism) recapitulates phylogeny (the evolutionary history of the entire group)." from The Metaphysical Club
October 16, 2021