capitule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitules
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin capitulum (“chapter”) (diminutive of Latin caput (“head”)).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1838, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, “The Scripture Testimony to the Messiah: an Inquiry with a view to a Satisfactory Determination of the Doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures concerning the person of Christ”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 3, number 67, page 294:
text: On 2ᵈ Nov. the Capitul was signed & fridʸ 3ᵈ we took possession.
ref: 1901, Ezra Stiles, Franklin Bowditch Dexter, The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Jan. 1, 1769-Mar. 13, 1776, page 639:
text: 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.
ref: 2016, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800:
glosses: A summary.
examples: text: At Vespers the following is sung, after the Capitule:
ref: 1856, Martin Wilson Foye, Romish Rites, Offices, and Legends, page 202:
text: 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.
ref: 1872, Guild of st. Alban, Church work - Volume 2, page 275:
text: 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.
ref: 1930, Restif de La Bretonne, Havelock Ellis, Monsieur Nicolas; Or, The Human Heart Unveiled:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Benjamin W. Farley, By the Waters of Babylon: Meditations on the Psalms for the Solace and Renewal of the Soul, page 100:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Synonym of chapter: a reading at one of the canonical hours.
synonyms: word: chapter
extra: a reading at one of the canonical hours
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1850, M. Herincq, “French Daisy Chrysanthemums”, in The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, volume 1, page 114:
text: These I take to be the shrunk up leaves that belong to the several deformed flowers of the capitule, and if you dissect the capitule you will find a succession of petals or leaves or whatever they be, becoming smaller and smaller until they are mere scales, and the more scale-like they are the more fleshy and the less leaf-like is their texture, and the suspicion my dawn upon you, as it has dawned upon me, that in my supposed capitule or head, or umbel, or many-flowered scape, we have not merely a number of monstrous flowers, but a number also of bulbs, stems, and leaves, all shrunk into leaf-like or scale-like processes, the double Daffodil being in reality a proliferous production, a sort of Pelion upon Ossa of a very lowly kind, and one of the most curious of all the vegetable monsters.
ref: 1875, Frederick William Burbidge, The Narcissus, page 29:
text: Now and then, as in the case of the dense conical capitule of the teasel, the flowers open according to no definite order, so that the surface becomes irregularly patched.
ref: 1884, Ward and Lock, The universal instructor, or, Self-culture for all: A complete Encyclopoedia of Learning and Self-Education - Volume 1, page 622:
text: Artichokes are used as fresh, canned or frozen vegetables — the receptacle (“bottom”) and the inner, soft bracts (“hearts”) are the edible parts of the capitule.
ref: 2019, Abraham H. Halevy, Handbook of Flowering: Volume II:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The flowering head that terminates a stem, a flower or flower head.