Encapsulate

WORD OF THE DAY

encapsulate / verb / in-KAP-suh-layt

Definition
1: to enclose in or as if in a capsule
2: epitomize, summarize

Examples
"Catherine Lutz, a longtime valley journalist, edited the book for correct style and punctuation purposes, without altering [writer Peggy] Clifford’s content. She also wrote the captions to go along with each photo. ‘The captions for the photos were purposed to encapsulate the text of the book, so if someone were to just flip through without reading the text, they could get its essence from the photos and their captions,’ Lutz said...”
— Jacqueline Reynolds, The Aspen (Colorado) Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022

After giving birth to her second child with Kanye West, Saint, in 2015, the reality star decided to encapsulate her placenta to try and avoid postpartum depression. 
—  Christina Butan, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2022

Did You Know?
Keeping it brief by encapsulating the history of this word in just a few sentences.
Encapsulate and its related noun, capsule, come to us from capsula, a diminutive form of the Latin noun capsa, meaning “box.” (Capsa also gave us the “container” or “box” meaning of the noun case.)
The earliest examples of encapsulate are for its literal use (“to enclose something in a capsule”) and date to the late 19th century.
Its extended meaning, “to give a summary or synopsis of something,” plays on the notion of a capsule being something compact, self-contained, and often easily digestible.