Capitulate vs Recapitulate - What's the difference?
capitulate | recapitulate |
(obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
(obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
* Heylin
To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
* Macaulay
to summarize or repeat in concise form
to repeat the evolutionary stages of an organism during its embryonic development
Recapitulate is a related term of capitulate.
As verbs the difference between capitulate and recapitulate
is that capitulate is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate while recapitulate is to summarize or repeat in concise form.capitulate
English
Verb
(capitulat)- there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
- He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .
Synonyms
* wave the white flagrecapitulate
English
Verb
(recapitulat)- The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
- ''Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.