Associations to the word «Recapitulate»

Wiktionary

RECAPITULATE, verb. To summarize or repeat in concise form.
RECAPITULATE, verb. (biology) (of an organism) During an individual's development, to pass through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.

Dictionary definition

RECAPITULATE, verb. Summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas".
RECAPITULATE, verb. Repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life.
RECAPITULATE, verb. Repeat an earlier theme of a composition.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats