recant (rekant)

[ They were wont ever after in their wedding songs to recant and resound this name - Thala ius. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 704. 2. To unsay; contradict or withdraw formally (something which one had previously a erted); renounce; disavow; retract: as, to recant one's opinion or profe ion of faith. IMG:content-1728.png:[blocks in formation] The public body, which doth seldom Play the recanter . Shak ., T. of A., v. 1. 149. recap a cit ate (rē-kā-pas'i-tāt), v . t. [ re- + capacitate .] To qualify again; confer capacity on again. Bp . Atterbury , To Bp. Trelawney. recapitulate (re-ka-pit'ū-lat), v. [ rec a pitulatus , pp. of recapitulare (> It. ricapitolare = Sp. Pg. Pr. recapitular = F. récapituler ), go over the main points of a thing again, capitulum , a head, main part, chapter (> ML. capitulare , capitulate): see capitulate .] I. trans . To repeat, as the principal things mentioned in a preceding discourse, argument, or e ay; give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; mention or relate in brief. When they met, Temple began by recapitulating what had pa ed at their last interview. Macaulay , Sir William Temple. =Syn. Recapitulate, Repeat, Recite, Rehearse, Reiterate. Recapitulate is a precise word, applying to the formal or exact naming of points that have been with some exactne named before: as, it is often well, after an extended argument, to recapitulate the heads. In this it differs from repeat, recite, rehearse, which are freer in their use. To reiterate is to say a thing a second time or oftener. II. in trans. To repeat in brief what has already been said. recapitulation (rē-ka-pit-ū-lā'shon), n. [OF. recapitulacion, recapitulation , F. récapitulation = Sp. recapitulacion = Pg. recapitulação = It. ricapitulazione , recapitulatio ( n- ) (techni recapitulation cal as trans. of Gr. ἀνακεφαλαίωσις ), D. Fer . Were e'er two friends engag'd in an adventure So intricate as we, and so capricious? D. Jul . Sure never in this world; methinks it merits A special recapitulation . Digby , Elvira, iii. 2. In rhet., a summary or concise statement or enumeration of the principal points or facts in a preceding discourse, argument, or e ay. Also añacephalæosis, enumeration. See epanodos. Such earnest and hastie heaping vp of speaches be made by way of recapitulation , which commonly is in the end of euery long tale and Oration, because the speaker seemes to make a collection of all the former mater i all points, to binde them as it were in a bundle and lay them forth to enforce the cause. Putten ham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 198. recapitulative (rē-ka-pit'ū-lā-tiv), a. [ It has been shown that these [rudimentary structures] are the last recapitulative remnant of an independent series of structures developed outside the spore in the Nature, XLI. 316. fern.