Word Meanings - RECAPITULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.

Related words: (words related to RECAPITULATION)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• RECAPITULATORY
  Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• RECAPITULATE
  To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• CONCISE
  Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• ESSAYIST
  A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.
• PRECEDE
  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
  1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
• ARGUMENTIZE
  To argue or discuss. Wood.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• ARGUMENTAL
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
• CONCISENESS
  The quality of being concise.
• ARGUMENTABLE
  Admitting of argument. Chalmers.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• REINSTATEMENT
  The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re