Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-CA-PIT'U-LA-TED, pp.

Repeated in a summary.

RE-CA-PIT'U-LA-TING, ppr.

Repeating the pinch things in a discourse or argument.

RE-CA-PIT-U-LA'TION, n.

1. The act of recapitulating.
2. A summary or concise statement or enumeration of the principal points or facts in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay. – South.

RE-CA-PIT'U-LA-TO-RY, a.

Repeating again; containing recapitulation.

RE-CAP'TION, n. [L. re and captio; capio, to take.]

The act of retaking; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife or children from one who has taken them and wrongfully detains them. Writ of recaption, a writ to recover property taken by a second distress, pending a replevin for a former distress for the same rent or service. – Blackstone.

RE-CAP'TOR, n. [re and captor.]

One who retakes; one that takes a prize which had been previously taken.

RE-CAP'TURE, n. [re and capture.]

1. The act of retaking; particularly, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
2. A prize retaken.

RE-CAP'TURE, v.t.

To retake; particularly, to retake prize which had been previously taken. – Du Ponceau.

RE-CAP'TUR-ED, pp.

Retaken.

RE-CAP'TUR-ING, ppr.

Retaking, as a prize from the captor.

RE-CAR-NI-FY, v.t. [re and carnify, from L. caro, flesh.]

To convert again into flesh. [Not much used.] – Howell.

RE-CAR'RI-ED, pp.

Carried back or again.

RE-CAR'RY, v.t. [re and carry.]

To carry back. – Walton.

RE-CAR'RY-ING, ppr.

Carrying back.

RE-CAST, pp.

Cast again; molded anew.

RE-CAST, v.t. [re and cast.]

1. To cast again; as, to recast cannon.
2. To throw again. – Florio.
3. To mold anew. – Burgess.
4. To compute a second time.

RE-CAST-ING, ppr.

Casting again; molding anew.

RE-CEDE', v.i. [L. recedo; re and cedo.]

1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore. – Dryden. All bodies moved circularly, endeavor to recede from the center. – Bentley.
2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist from; relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand; to recede from terms or propositions.

RE-CEDE', v.t. [re and cede.]

To cede back; to grant or yield to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

RE-CED'ED, pp.

Ceded back; regranted.

RE-CED'ING, ppr.

1. Withdrawing; retreating; moving back.
2. Ceding back; regranting.

RE-CEIPT', or RE-CEIT', n. [recee't; It. ricetta, from the L. receptus. This word ought to follow the analogy of conceit, deceit, from L. conceptus, deceptus, and be written without p, receit.]

1. The act of receiving; as, the receipt of a letter.
2. The place of receiving; as, the receipt of custom. – Matth. ix.
3. Reception; as, the receipt of blessings or mercies.
4. Reception; welcome; as, the kind receipt of a friend. [Obs.] [In this sense, reception is now used.]
5. Recipe; prescription of ingredients for any composition, as of medicines, &c. – Dryden. Arbuthnot.
6. In commerce, a writing acknowledging the taking of money or goods. A receipt of money may be in part or in full payment of a debt, and it operates as an acquittance or discharge of the debt either in part or in full. A receipt of goods makes the receiver liable to account for the same, according to the nature of the transaction, or the tenor of the writing. It is customary for sherifs to deliver goods taken in execution, to some person who gives his receipt for them, with a promise to redeliver them to the sherif at or before the time of sale.

RE-CEIPT', or RE-CEIT', v.t. [recee't.]

To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sherif.

RE-CEIV'A-BLE, a.

That may be received.

RE-CEIV'A-BLE-NESS, n.

Capability of being received. – Whitlock.