CAPITE
CAPITE. In English law, a tenant in capite or in chief, is one who holds lands immediately of the king, caput, the head or Lord Paramount of all lands in the kingdom, by knights...
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CAPITOL
CAPITOL, noun1. The temple of Jupiter in Rome, and a fort or castle, on the Mons Capitolinus. In this, the Senate of Rome anciently assembled; and on the same place, is still th...
CAPITOLIAN
CAPITOLIAN, adjective Pertaining to the capitol in Rome.
CAPITOLINE
CAPITOLINE, adjective Pertaining to the capitol in Rome. The capitoline Games were annual games instituted by Camillus in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, and in commemoration of t...
CAPITULAR
CAPITULAR,CAPITULARLY, adverb In the form of an ecclesiastical chapter.CAPITULARY, adjective Relating to the chapter of a cathedral.
CAPITULARLY
CAPITULARLY,adv. In the form of an ecclesiastical chapter.
CAPITULARY
CAPITULARY, noun1. An act passed in a chapter, either of knights, canons or religious.2. The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council. This name is...
CAPITULATE
CAPITULATE, verb intransitive1. To draw up a writing in chapters, heads or articles. [But this sense is not usual.]2. To surrender, as an army or garrison, to an enemy, by treat...
CAPITULATION
CAPITULATION, noun1. The act of capitulating, or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms or conditions.2. The treaty or instrument containing the conditions of surrender....
CAPITULATOR
CAPITULATOR, noun One who capitulates.
CAPITULE
CAPITULE, noun A summary.
CAPIVI
CAPIVI, noun A balsam of the Spanish West-Indies. [See Copaiba.]
CAPNOMANCY
CAPNOMANCY, noun Divination by the ascent or motion of smoke.
CAPOCH
CAPOCH, noun A monks hood.
CAPON
CAPON, noun A castrated cock; a cock-chicken gelded as soon as he quits his dam, or as soon as he begins to crow.CAPON, verb transitive To castrate, as a cock.
CAPONNIERE
CAPONNIERE, noun In fortification, a covered lodgment, sunk four or five feet into the ground, encompassed with a parapet, about two feet high, serving to support several planks...
CAPOT
CAPOT, noun A winning of all the tricks of cards at the game of piquet.CAPOT, verb transitive To win all the tricks of cards at piquet.
CAPPER
CAPPER, noun [from cap.] One whose business is to make or sell caps.
CAPREOLATE
CAPREOLATE, adjective In botany, having tendrils, or filiform spiral claspers, by which plants fasten themselves to other bodies, as in vines, peas, etc.
CAPRICE
CAPRICE, noun A sudden start of the mind; a sudden change of opinion, or humor; a whim, freak, or particular fancy.
CAPRICIOUS
CAPRICIOUS, adjective Freakish; whimsical; apt to change opinions suddenly, or to start from ones purpose; unsteady; changeable; fickle; fanciful; subject to change or irregular...
CAPRICIOUSLY
CAPRICIOUSLY, adverb In a capricious manner; whimsically.
CAPRICIOUSNESS
CAPRICIOUSNESS, noun1. The quality of being led by caprice; whimsicalness; unsteadiness of purpose or opinion.2. Unsteadiness; liableness to sudden changes; as the capriciousnes...
CAPRICORN
CAPRICORN, noun One of the twelve signs of the zodiac, the winter solstice; represented on ancient monuments, by the figure of a goat, or a figure having the fore part like a go...
CAPRIFICATION
CAPRIFICATION, noun A method of ripening figs by means of a gnat or insect that pricks the bud.
CAPRIFOLE
CAPRIFOLE, noun Honeysuckle; woodbine.
CAPRIFORM
CAPRIFORM, adjective Having the form of a goat.