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Recapitulation

noun

Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species. Synonym: palingenesis. Antonym: cenogenesis.

(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated.

A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion. Synonyms: recap, review.

(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement).

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"Recapitulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... not concerned to give you a recapitulation of all the East Anglian writers, whose names, as I have said, can be found in any biographical dictionary, and the quality of whose work would rather suggest that East Anglia, from a literary point of view, is a land of extinct volcanoes. ...

— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter

... statement gives the particulars of the ocean mail service of Great Britain, now carried on almost exclusively by steamships. The numbers in the margin, running from 1 to 15, will point out the different lines in the recapitulation at the close. ...

— Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post • Thomas Rainey

... course of lectures. (pp. 339-41.)—Recapitulation of the original purpose, which is stated to have been, while assuming the potency of the moral, to analyse the intellectual causes of doubt, which have been ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... between Temple and De Witt were singularly fair and open. When they met, Temple began by recapitulating what had passed at their last interview. De Witt, who was as little given to lying with his face as with his tongue, marked his assent by his looks while the recapitulation proceeded, and, when it was concluded, answered that Temple's memory was perfectly correct, and thanked him for proceeding in so exact and sincere a manner. Temple then informed the Grand Pensionary that the King ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... the American aborigines in gentes, phratries, and tribes, with the functions of each in their social system. From the importance of this organization to a right understanding of their social and governmental life, a recapitulation of the principal features of each member of the organic series is necessary in this connection. [Footnote: "Ancient Society" or "Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization." Henry Holt ...

— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan

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