Hypertext Webster Gateway: "capitular"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Capitular \Ca*pit"u*lar\, n. [LL. capitulare, capitularium, fr.
L. capitulum a small head, a chapter, dim. of capit head,
chapter.]
1. An act passed in a chapter.
2. A member of a chapter.
The chapter itself, and all its members or
capitulars. --Ayliffe.
3. The head or prominent part.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Capitular \Ca*pit"u*lar\, a.
1. (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
From the pope to the member of the capitular body.
--Milman.
2. (Bot.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.
3. (Anat.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular
process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with
the capitulum of a rib.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
capitular
adj : of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter; "capitular
estates" [syn: {capitulary}]
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