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recapitulation

[ree-kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn] / ˌri kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃən /
NOUN
summary that repeats
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Recapitulation for the 72nd House: Drys 285 Wets 109 Contests 24 Weaslers 17 Total 435 Superintendent McBride has claimed a Dry strength of 325 in the next House.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a case of "academic fumbling"—mere treading of water—in this adjustment of key relationship, see the Recapitulation of the first movement of Brahms's Second Symphony.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

General Considerations on the Ox-Typhus, and the Recapitulation of the Symptoms.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

We are now carried onward through a series of passages, with pungent dissonances and imitative phrases, to a fortissimo dominant chord; thence through a descending cadenza-like passage we are whirled back to the Recapitulation.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

Also his second famous work, the above-mentioned Hebrew Codex, Mishneh Torah, "Recapitulation of the Law," was written in the interest of his brethren in faith.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav




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