The Only Use of
recapitulate
in
Brave New World
- With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement.†
p. 146.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(recapitulate) summarize briefly
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, recapitulate can reference repeating something as to repeat an earlier theme of a composition or to repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life.