recapitulatoryadj.
/ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃᵿlət(ə)ri/, /ˌriːkəˈpɪtjᵿlət(ə)ri/, /ˌriːkəpɪtʃᵿˈleɪt(ə)ri/, /ˌriːkəpɪtjᵿˈleɪt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌrikəˈpɪtʃələˌtɔri/ Relating to, of the nature of, or characterized by recapitulation (recapitulation n.1, in various senses).
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [adjective] > of recapitulation
recapitulatory1653
recapitulary1715
recapitulant1929
the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [adjective] > processes or types of evolution
high?1548
recapitulative1836
retrogressive1853
transmutational1861
ontogenetic1869
convergent1871
phylogenetic1876
correlative1877
ontogenic1878
phylogenetical1879
phytogenetic1882
monotypic1888
phytogenetical1888
polytypic1888
ontogenal1890
phylogenal1890
recapitulatory1890
tachygenetic1893
ontogenetical1894
anagenetic1896
orthogenic1896
orthogenetic1899
macroevolutionary1937
microevolutionary1937
proterogenetic1938
speciational1944
parapatric1953
cladogenetic1957
allochronic1960
stasigenetic1965
stasipatric1967
speciating1970
punctuational1976
tachygenic-
1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 20 This as I remember..was the very period of that mans Disputation with me, saving what he added after in his recapitulatory moderation.
a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Lord's Prayer (1681) 197 This Law is comprehensive, and recapitulatory (as it were) of the rest concerning our neighbour.
1685 R. Lucas Enq. Happiness ii. ii. 66 (margin) A Recapitulatory Conclusion.
1707 W. Turner Exercises to Accidence 64 (heading) A Recapitulatory Exemplification of the several Moods and Tenses in the same Verb carried through the whole.
1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xxxviii. 358 Illustrating it by recapitulatory moral reflections.
1851 Times 29 Aug. 5 After some recapitulatory passages.., the finale and the cantata came to a termination with a beautiful trio and chorus.
1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching 153 A most effective form of recapitulatory lesson.
1890 Nature 11 Sept. 468/1 Sudden changes of this kind..cannot possibly be recapitulatory.
1953 Times 16 May 5/6 A crude account of the proceedings in court, clumsily broken by passages of recapitulatory narrative.
1991 Jrnl. Royal Musical Assoc. 116 238 The dramatic function of these finales is primarily recapitulatory rather than expository.
1997 Biol. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 62 133 The hypothesis of carpal loss in crocodilian limb evolution..may supersede traditional Haeckelian views based on recapitulatory paradigms.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 25/3 Voltaire in Exile, after some recapitulatory preliminary chapters, begins where Voltaire..flees to Switzerland.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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