Part 1620

<blockquote>The chapter itself, and all its members or <b>capitulars</b>. <i>Ayliffe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The head or prominent part.</def>

<h1>Capitular</h1> <Xpage=214>

<hw>Ca*pit"u*lar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.</def>

<blockquote>From the pope to the member of the <b>capitular</b> body. <i>Milman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to a capitulum; <as>as, the <ex>capitular</ex> process of a vetebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib</as>.</def>

<h1>Capitularly</h1> <Xpage=214>

<hw>Ca*pit"u*lar*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.</def>

<i>Sterne.</i>

<h1>Capitulary</h1> <Xpage=214>

<hw>Ca*pit"u*la*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Capitularies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[See <er>Capitular</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A capitular.</plu></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.</def>

<blockquote>Several of Charlemagne's <b>capitularies</b>. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Capitulary</h1> <Xpage=214>

<hw>Ca*pit"u*la*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.</def> "<i>Capitulary</i> acts."

<i>Warton.</i>

<h1>Capitulate</h1> <Xpage=214>

<hw>Ca*pit"u*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Capitulated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Capitulating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[LL. <ets>capitulatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>capitulare</ets> to capitulate: cf. F. <ets>capituler</ets>. See <er>Capitular</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>There <b>capitulates</b> with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. <i>Heylin.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to <b>capitulate</b>. <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); <as>as, an army or a garrison <ex>capitulates</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>The Irish, after holding out a week, <b>capitulated</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Capitulate</h1> <Xpage=214>

<hw>Ca*pit"u*late</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Capitulation</h1> <Xpage=214>

<hw>Ca*pit`u*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>capitulation</ets>, LL. <ets>capitulatio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.</def>