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v. re·ca·pit·u·lat·ed, re·ca·pit·u·lat·ing, re·ca·pit·u·lates
1. To repeat in concise form.
2. Biology To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
To make a summary.

[Latin recapitulāre, recapitulāt- : re-, re- + capitulum, main point, heading, diminutive of caput, capit-, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.]

re·ca·pit′u·la′tive, re·ca·pit′u·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē) adj.
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The tree, moreover, has always been a recapitulatory and fundamental symbol that aligns human life with nature.
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This combination of what Said terms "undiminished power and yet strangely recapitulatory and even backward-looking and abstracted quality" (LS, 25) is also noted by Margaret Atwood, in an interview in the Times, where she connects the experience of aging with different or "untimely" ways of perceiving and writing about time, memory, and narrative: "If you are young you can imagine what it's like to be old but you haven't lived it.
At the same time, the journey operates in a recapitulatory mode to gather up the whole time of the poem, and the whole time of the Christian dispensation, moving us back to the poem's beginning, to Mary Magdalene's point of origin in the Holy Land, which is also the point of origin of the Church itself.
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The chain of experiences traces a path (though a sinuous one) that ends in the present state of recapitulatory knowledge.
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