recapitulate Definition

1. To go over the chief points of (an argument, statement, etc) again.

Thesaurus: review, summarize, recount, recap, reiterate, repeat, restate, sum up.
2. biol.
Said of an embryo: to repeat (stages in the evolutionary development of its species) during embryonic development.
3. music.
To repeat (an earlier passage) in a piece of music.