anacephalaeosis

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noun

A brief restatement or repetition of the principal heads or main points of an argument or discourse; a recapitulation, especially as used in the peroration to refresh the audience's memory and reinforce the argument.

OriginAncient Greek ἀνακεφαλαίωσις →
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Meanings

nounanacephalaeosis (uncountable)
  1. rhetoricuncommonuncountableA brief restatement or repetition of the principal heads or main points of an argument or discourse; a recapitulation, especially as used in the peroration to refresh the audience's memory and reinforce the argument.

    […] anacephalaeosis, analogy and apomnemonysis to demonstrate his authority : (1) anacephalaeosis, a recapitulation of what has been said: "there must bee contrition, before there will be an inhabition of Christ in the soule"; (2) analogy […]

    1972, David Mark Stevens, John Cotton and Thomas Hooker: The Rhetoric of the Holy Spirit, page 118

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἀνακεφαλαίωσις“recapitulation”
  2. Englishanacephalaeosis

From Ancient Greek ἀνακεφαλαίωσις (anakephalaíōsis, “recapitulation”), from ἀνακεφαλαιόω (anakephalaióō, “to sum up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up, again”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

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