recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)
(legal) The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
recaption (third-person singular simple present recaptions, present participle recaptioning, simple past and past participle recaptioned)
(transitive) To assign a new caption to.
• captioner, preaction, precation
Source: Wiktionary
Re*cap"tion, n. (Law)
Definition: The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause.Wharton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 June 2025
(noun) members of a family line; “his people have been farmers for generations”; “are your people still alive?”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
