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English
Etymology
From recapitulate + -ant.
Adjective
recapitulant (comparative more recapitulant, superlative most recapitulant)
- recapitulating
1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 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
- third-person plural present active indicative of recapitulō