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Capitulate

//kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated. obsolete

    "It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]"

  2. 2
    Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items. obsolete
  3. 3
    Having or forming a capitulum.

    "The aggregation of flowers into capitulate inflorescences is a character directly advantageous from the aspect of the biological function of cross-pollination."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of capitoulate alt-of, alternative
Verb
  1. 1
    To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. intransitive

    "He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop."

  2. 2
    surrender under agreed conditions wordnet
  3. 3
    To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify. ambitransitive, obsolete

    "The lawes […] which we capitulate at sea […] are not used on lande."

  4. 4
    To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley. obsolete, transitive

    "there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary"

  5. 5
    To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something). obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

The adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1537; borrowed from Medieval Latin capitulātus perfect passive participle of Medieval Latin capitulō (“(originally; of a book, text) to draw up under distinct headings; (from the 15ᵗʰ c.) to bargain, parley, convene”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), diminutive of caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Etymology 2

The adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1537; borrowed from Medieval Latin capitulātus perfect passive participle of Medieval Latin capitulō (“(originally; of a book, text) to draw up under distinct headings; (from the 15ᵗʰ c.) to bargain, parley, convene”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), diminutive of caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

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