/ree'keuh pich"euh layt'/ , v. , recapitulated, recapitulating .
v.t.
1. to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
2. Biol. (of an organism) to repeat (ancestral evolutionary stages) in its development.
3. Music. to restate (the exposition) in a sonata-form movement.
v.i.
4. to sum up statements or matters.
[ 1560-70; recapitulatus (ptp. of recapitulare ), equiv. to re- RE- + capitulatus; see CAPITULATE ]
Syn. 1. See repeat .