Meaning

(obsolete) A summary..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A summary.
2. (Roman Catholicism) Synonym of chapter: a reading at one of the canonical hours.
3. (botany) The flowering head that terminates a stem, a flower or flower head.

Example Sentences

In the Capitule headed · Miscellaneous declarations of Christ, intimating the existence and action of a Superior Nature in himself, we find (p. 295) an interesting addition to the text, the concluding sentence of which is so characteristic of the author's love of justice, that without pretending to ascribe to Dr. Smith the monopoly of that virtue, it would, ahd his work been published ananymously, have gone far towards revealing him.

On 2ᵈ Nov. the Capitul was signed & fridʸ 3ᵈ we took possession.

In 1514, Dimitri Caloiri of loannina asked for and obtained reductions in Anconitan customs duties on behalf of Greek merchants of loannina, Arta, and Vlona. The “capitule” also specify the items brought .by these Ottoman Greeks to the port of Ancona; silk and camlets headed the list which also included carpets, leather, and wax.

At Vespers the following is sung, after the Capitule:

In the capitule, and the responsory which follows it, we recall to the memory of our Lord, in the words of his prophet — or, rather, of the Church, to whose sentiments theprophet gives expression— the fact that we are by no means strangers in his sight.

We collected ourselves, and as the man, I led; the Sister said the alternate verses, and I the capitule and the prayer, and everything that usually falls to the celebrant.

Finally, by evening time and the hour of the capitule, the brotherhood joined in laughing about america's taste for “turkey” and the fact that Franklin preferred the ruffled gobbler to the stately bald eagle.

In this country the merits of the Chrysanthemum are already appreciated, and for some years it has acquired considerable repute, which is chiefly owing to the facility with which it doubles its capitules, and modifies the colours of its flowers. At the present day a great number of varieties are in cultivation, some of them with flowers dark purple, nearly black, rose, white, orange, yellow; sometimes we find a single capitule or head with two different colours; other varieties are distinguished by the form of their flowers, which constitute rayed capitules, partly or entirely ligulate; and partly or entirely tubular.

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