Recapitulation

/ˌɹiːkəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ · noun

Meaning

A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book..

Definitions by Sense

1. A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
2. (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
3. (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
4. (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.

Example Sentences

The dolorous effects of the second world war on train services, and its protracted legacies of over-age equipment and shortages of material for replacement, are too fresh in memory to require recapitulation here; […].

In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune.

one would expect God's final purpose to be expressed in his created world, since the doctrine of recapitulation showed that this is where his plans had worked out before.

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• recapitulations
• re-capitulation

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