1. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
If Henry were recalled to life again.
Shak. 2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
Passed sentence may not be recall'd.
Shak. 3. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
Recall
(Re*call"), n.
1. A calling back; a revocation.
'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall.
Dryden. 2. (Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
Wilhelm.
Recallable
(Re*call"a*ble) a. Capable of being recalled.
Recallment
(Re*call"ment) n. Recall. [R.] R. Browning.
Recant
(Re*cant") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Recanting.] [L. recantare, recantatum,
to recall, recant; pref. re- re- + cantare to sing, to sound. See 3d Cant, Chant.] To withdraw or repudiate
formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back
openly; to retract; to recall.
How soon . . . ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void!
Milton. Syn. — To retract; recall; revoke; abjure; disown; disavow. See Renounce.
Recant
(Re*cant"), v. i. To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as,
convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant. Dryden.
Recantation
(Re`can*ta"tion) n. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that
which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation.
Bp. Stillingfleet. Recanter
(Re*cant"er) n. One who recants.
Recapacitate
(Re`ca*pac"i*tate) v. t. To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.
Recapitulate
(Re*ca*pit"u*late) v. t. [L. recapitulare, recapitulatum; pref. re- re- + capitulum a small
head, chapter, section. See Capitulate.] 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.
Recapitulate
(Re`ca*pit"u*late) v. i. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously
said; to repeat briefly the substance.
Recapitulation
(Re`ca*pit`u*la"tion) n. [LL. recapitulatio: cf. F. recapitulation.] The act of recapitulating; a
summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding
discourse, argument, or essay.
Recapitulator
(Re`ca*pit"u*la`tor) (- pit"u*la`ter), n. One who recapitulates.
