单词 | recapitulant |
释义 | recapitulantadj. rare (chiefly literary). That recapitulates; characterized by recapitulation. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [adjective] > of recapitulation recapitulatory1653 recapitulary1715 recapitulant1929 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 378 He repeated his story, harshly recapitulant. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xii. 269 The boys' diction was slow now, recapitulant. 1949 R. V. Chase Herman Melville ii. 94 A dream..of time and the process of nature, the eternal, recapitulant rush of walruses and whales. 1989 J. Briggs & F. D. Peat Turbulent Mirror 145/1 The dynamics of bifurcations reveal that time is irreversible yet recapitulant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1929 |
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