digest vs recapitulate

digest

verb
  • To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. 

  • To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. 

  • To undergo digestion. 

  • To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. 

  • To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. 

  • To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. 

noun
  • Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings. 

  • That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles 

  • A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws. 

  • The result of applying a hash function to a message. 

recapitulate

verb
  • To summarize or repeat in concise form. 

  • (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development. 

  • To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function). 

How often have the words digest and recapitulate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )