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Capitular adj.

(Eccl.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. "From the pope to the member of the capitular body."

(Bot.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.

(Anat.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.

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Etymology of 'Capitular'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Capitular" Quotes from Famous Books

... he may submit to the Queen.... St. Katherine's Hospital is no more a "Charity" than Westminster Abbey is a Charity, and to describe it as such, after the true facts of the case are known, will leave any writer or speaker open to the charge of discourtesy, directly offered to a capitular body whose personal constitution is worthy of its high and ancient corporate ecclesiastical dignity, and indirectly through the members of the Chapter, to ...

— As We Are and As We May Be • Sir Walter Besant

... and earl sat together in the local Gemot, to deal with many matters which, according to continental ideas, should have been dealt with in separate courts. And, by what in continental eyes seemed a strange laxity of discipline, priests, bishops, members of capitular bodies, were often married. The English diocesan arrangements were unlike continental models. In Gaul, by a tradition of Roman date, the bishop was bishop of the city. His diocese was marked by the extent of the civil jurisdiction of the city. His home, ...

— William the Conqueror • E. A. Freeman

... iv., 5995. Henry VIII. no doubt also had his eye on Gustavus in Sweden where the Vesteraes Recess of 1527 had provided that all episcopal, capitular and monastic property which was not absolutely required should be handed over to the King, and conferred upon him an ecclesiastical jurisdiction as extensive as that afterwards conferred upon Henry VIII. ...

— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard

Words linked to "Capitular" : capitulary, chapter