Capitularly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In the manner or form of, or acting as, a religious chapter.

    "The dean of Strasburg , the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars, (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of buttered buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of Saint Ursula's example"

Example

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"The dean of Strasburg , the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars, (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of buttered buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of Saint Ursula's example"

Etymology

From capitular + -ly.

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