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Entry 6 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Capitular

· Ca·pit·u·lar · IPA
01 n. An act passed in a chapter.
  1. 1.
    An act passed in a chapter.
  2. 2.
    A member of a chapter.
    “The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars.” — Ayliffe.
  3. 3.
    The head or prominent part.
02 a. Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.(Eccl.)
    “From the pope to the member of the capitular body.” — Milman.
  2. 2.
    Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.(Bot.)
  3. 3.
    Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.(Anat.)