recapitulate

1. (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.Examples: "The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars."; "We still have five minutes left, so let's recapitulate the lecture."Synonyms: recap, sum upambitransitive

2. (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).Examples: "Being the Joshua/Atonement stanza of this cycle, the fact that the seven steps seem to recapitulate (or precapitulate?) the pattern of dominion is interesting. Situated at the very “gate” of Canaan, was this offer a temptation to be resisted like the plunder of Jericho (Joshua 6:18), or was it sin crouching at the door, the violence of Cain as “keeper” or shepherd over his brother (Genesis 4:7-8)? For Jacob, it was neither. He was waiting on God. For his sons, however, it was both. What Yahweh was offering freely they would take by force."transitive

3. (transitive, biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.Examples: "Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development."transitive