Capitulate vs. Recapitulate — What's the Difference?

To surrender under specified conditions

To repeat in concise form.

To give up all resistance; acquiesce

(Biology) To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.

(intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

To make a summary.

To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

(ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.

To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

(transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).

To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.

(transitive) 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.

To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.

To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.

To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.

To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.

Surrender under agreed conditions

Summarize briefly;

Repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

Repeat an earlier theme of a composition