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Webster 1913 Edition

Capitulary

Ca-pit′u-la-ry

,
Noun.
;
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.

Ca-pit′u-la-ry

,
Adj.
Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
“Capitulary acts.”
Warton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Capitulary

CAPITULARY

,
Noun.
1.
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 also given to the laws, civil and ecclesiastical, made by Charlemagne, and other princes, in general councils and assemblies of the people. Some indeed have alledged that these are supplements to laws. They are so called, because they are divided into chapters or sections.
3.
The member of a chapter.

Definition 2024

capitulary

capitulary

English

Noun

capitulary ‎(plural capitularies)

  1. A member of an ecclesiastical chapter
  2. A set of decrees, especially those made by the Frankish kings

Adjective

capitulary ‎(comparative more capitulary, superlative most capitulary)

  1. Of or related to a chapter, in its various senses.
  2. Of or related to the Capitoulate of Toulouse.
    • 1989, Robert Alan Schneider, "Crown and Capitoulat" in Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France, p. 198:
      In mid-sixteenth century, the Conseil Général assembled almost eighty men and was, in fact, a remnant of the general assemblies held during the period of the medieval commune; but its functions were mostly limited to a ceremonial hearing of the municipal deliberations and the supervision of the capitulary election.

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