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Posted By:
FoFong
Recapitulate
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08/25/14
09:21 AM
Recapitulate
does not mean 'to capitulate again', but this raises the question: How did
capitulate
come to mean what it does?
Posted By:
A C Bowden
Re: Capitulate
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03/26/15
12:09 AM
'Capitulate' comes from Latin
capitulum
, 'chapter'. It originally meant 'to draw up terms of surrender (chapter by chapter)'.
Posted By:
LukeJavan8
Re: Capitulate
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03/26/15
05:35 AM
You hit that one right on the nose. Exactly.
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