Definition of recaption Recaption
re•cap•tion
We found 4 definitions of recaption from 3 different sources.
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What does recaption mean?
Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- recaption (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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recaption
rē-kap′shun, n. reprisal: (law) taking back goods, wife, or children from one who has no right to detain them
