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capitular, a. and n.|kəˈpɪtjʊlə(r)|
[ad. med.L. capitulār-is adj., capitulāre n., f. capitulum in its various senses: see below.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter; governed by a chapter.
1611Cotgr., Capitulaire, capitular; of, or belonging to, a chapter. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 36 That in a capitular action..should be sent forth two Apostolical Briefs. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 787 Seizing the temporalities of bishops and capitular bodies. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 182 Some of the old cathedrals had been served by chapters of canons, others by monks—all were hereafter to be capitular.
2. Phys. Of or pertaining to a terminal protuberance of bone. Cf. capitulum 2.
1872Mivart Elem. Anat. 28 The first of these articular sources is termed ‘capitular’. 1881― Cat 37 One kind, attached to the centrum, are called capitular.
3. Bot. Growing in small heads, as the Dandelion does.
1846Worcester cites Loudon; and in mod. Dicts.
B. n. [various elliptical uses of the adj.]
1. A member of an ecclesiastical chapter.
1726Ayliffe Parergon 201 The Chapter may..make Decrees and Statutes which shall bind the Chapter itself and all its Members or Capitulars. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) IV. 20 The dean of Strasburg..the capitulars and domiciliars (capitularly assembled)..all wished, etc.
2. = capitulary B. 2.
1660Jer. Taylor Rule Conscience iv. i. (R.) The capitular of Charles the Great joyns dicing and drunkenness together. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., In these capitulars did the whole French jurisprudence antiently consist. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) I. 142 Nothing gives us a better notion of the..French monarchy, than the third capitular of the year 811.
3. ? A law or statute of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council; a canon; also fig.
a1667Jer. Taylor Serm. (1678) 90 Our Blessed Saviour made those capitulars and canons of Religion. 1721–1800Bailey, Capitulars, ordinances or injunctions of kings or bishops, about Ecclesiastical Affairs. 1751Chambers Cycl., Capitular or capitulary, denotes an act passed in a chapter, either of knights, canons, or religious.
4. ? A heading or title of a chapter.
1846–7W. Maskell Mon. Rit. I. p. liv, Here must be mentioned a Capitular which not unfrequently is to be met with in MSS. of the New Testament in English..‘Here begynnythe a rule, that tellith in whiche chapitris of the bible..ye mown fynd the epistlis and the gospels’. |