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Recapitulation

noun
1.
Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species.  Synonym: palingenesis.
2.
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated.
3.
A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.  Synonyms: recap, review.
4.
(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



... The teachers of the Normal class shall teach from the chapter Recapitulation in SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, and from the Christian Science Platform, beginning on page 330 of the revised editions since 1902, and they shall teach nothing contrary thereto. The teachers of the Primary ...
— Manual of the Mother Church - The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts • Mary Baker Eddy

... There was a recapitulation of the invitations, a renewed offering of outlooks and vistas and Agatha Alimony. "You'll not forget," insisted Lady Beach-Mandarin. "You'll not afterwards throw ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... period of her departure, a letter was received from Mr. Streatfield. It was little more than a recapitulation of what he had already said to Mr. Langley—expressed, however, on this occasion, in stronger and, at the same time, in more respectful terms. The letter was answered briefly: he was informed that nothing had, as yet, ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... extreme, it would put an end to the race. For who are the weakest, the "hindmost," but the babies! Sympathy and love and self sacrifice, at least in parents, are necessary if the race is to endure a generation. But even for the individual, the penalties of immorality are too obvious to need recapitulation. If morality is repression, it is the minimal repression consistent with the maintenance of successful and happy life. Its real aim is to bring life, ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... written hastily, and in a situation where I had no aid from books, is yet far from being what some people have supposed it—a simple recapitulation, or resum, of the Roman imperatorial history. It moves rapidly over the ground, but still with an exploring eye, carried right and left into the deep shades that have gathered so thickly over the one solitary road [5] traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey


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