ˌrēkəˈpichəˌlāt, usu -ād.+V verb
Etymology: Late Latin recapitulatus, past participle of recapitulare to sum up, restate by heads, from Latin re- + Late Latin capitulare (from capitulum division of a book, heading) — more at chapter
transitive verb
1.
a. : to repeat the principal points of : restate briefly : give a summary of
recapitulate … the whole situation as I see it — J.C.Powys
a host of writers have attempted to define addiction and there is no point in recapitulating here the history of those attempts — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel
b. : to repeat the principal stages or phases of
adopted the theory that the child recapitulates primitive experience — H.J.Muller
the individual organism recapitulates the history of its race — S.F.Mason
2. : unite
to recapitulate ourselves, to assemble and muster ourselves — John Donne
intransitive verb
: to sum up : go back over an argument or discussion
now that I recapitulate he was correct with less than one percent error — New Republic