But the recapitulation is as gratuitous as it is insulting and untrue. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of the Week] Reference
The sixth rule Tichonius calls the recapitulation, which, with sufficient watchfulness, is discovered in difficult parts of Scripture. From Wordnik.com. [On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books] Reference
There was nothing left for it to do but to repeat, in short recapitulation, the course it had traversed, and to prove that it had been buried only after it had expired. From Wordnik.com. [Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte] Reference
Developmental genes has nothing to do with "recapitulation". From Wordnik.com. [Behe's Test] Reference
But you could pretty clearly use this kind of recapitulation argument that way. From Wordnik.com. [October « 2009 « Maria Lectrix] Reference
If any body else had possessed your happy talent for this kind of recapitulation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
'recapitulation' because it consists of reviewing events of our personal history to find their hidden plot. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
A phrase that appears at the end of a sentence to sum up what has just been said -- a kind of recapitulation like this: summative modifier. From Wordnik.com. [ Composition] Reference
The recapitulation clearly exhibits the actual truth. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Employ recapitulation, summary, and review frequently. From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation] Reference
The other was a recapitulation and review of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Herod: these are too recent to require recapitulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
A recapitulation of the reign of Sedecias, and the destruction of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Haeckel was not the original discoverer of the law of recapitulation. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Their recapitulation theory was part and parcel of the same general idea. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
And she proceeded with a careful recapitulation of the events of the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"I understand heredity," he said, "but karma and recapitulation are too much for me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
Of course the recapitulation of ancestral history will be neither literal nor extended. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
There is never a recapitulation of total organisations, only at the most of single organs. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The grounds of these have been heretofore so fully explained as to require no recapitulation. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The superintendent gave a brief recapitulation of the steps he had taken since he left London. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
But even for the individual, the penalties of immorality are too obvious to need recapitulation. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Evolution, "says," Thirty years ago, the recapitulation theory was well nigh universally accepted. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
It is interesting to note a formulation in somewhat confused language of the recapitulation theory. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The law of recapitulation is in some well-controlled cases triumphantly vindicated by palæontology. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
(And the recapitulation, if you were unseasoned enough to call her back, to protest your innocence.). From Wordnik.com. [Jeanne's Song, 2010] Reference
The reforms introduced into Russia by Peter the Great are too well known to need recapitulation here. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
It is of special interest to note that he definitely rejects the Meckel-Serres theory of recapitulation. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
It reappears in some strength in the code of Canute, but the latter is chiefly a recapitulation of former enactments. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
The recapitulation theory makes the child pass through the evolutionary stages of the nation or nations he represents. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
The events which succeeded this fortunate capture are too well known to require more than a very brief recapitulation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
Who has patience for the recapitulation of a string of names, when a group of faces may be placed simultaneously before him?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
This theory of race recapitulation as applied to the succeeding stages of boyhood may be somewhat more poetic than scientific. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference
Botanists have not been troubled by any recapitulation theory, and in founding their big groups, Acotyledons, Monocotyledons, and. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The theory of parallelism or recapitulation then is not borne out by the facts, and clearly cannot be the law which we are seeking. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
He seems not to have known of the recapitulation theory, of which he might have made such good use as powerful evidence for evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Any recapitulation there may be is a recapitulation of single organs, there is never a repetition of the complete organisation of a fish. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Then, again, in the society of a real enthusiast one is apt to be bored by a recapitulation of his or her full accumulations of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
But if such earnest and hastie heaping vp of speaches be made by way of recapitulation, which commonly is in the end of euery long tale and. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.