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recapitulant

recapitulant

See also: récapitulant

English

Adjective

recapitulant (comparative more recapitulant, superlative most recapitulant)

  1. recapitulating
    • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.139:
      How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

Latin

Verb

recapitulant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of recapitulō