Dictionary entry

Capitulary

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.

Several of Charlemagne's capitularies.

Hallam.