Capitellate to Capstan
Capitellate
(Cap`i*tel"late) a. [L. capitellum, dim. of caput head.] (Bot.) Having a very small knoblike
termination, or collected into minute capitula.
Capitibranchiata
(||Cap`i*ti*bran`chi*a"ta) n. pl. [NL., from L. caput, capitis, head + -branchiae gills.]
(Zoöl.) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.
Capitol
(Cap"i*tol) [L. capitolium, fr. caput head: cf. F. capitole. See Chief.]
1. The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.
Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to- morrow?
Shak.
2. The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which
the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.
Capitolian
(Cap`i*to"li*an Cap"i*to*line) a. [L. capitolinus: cf. F. capitolin.] Of or pertaining to the Capitol
in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay.
Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus,
on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period
of neglect, they were held every fifth year.
Capitula
(||Ca*pit"u*la) n. pl. See Capitulum.
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.
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.
Capitularly
(Ca*pit"u*lar*ly) adv. In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.
Capitulary
(Ca*pit"u*la*ry) n.; pl. Capitularies [See Capitular.]
1. A capitular.
2. The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
