Word Meanings - CAPITULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads

Additional info about word: CAPITULATE

1. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench. 2. To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• REASONABLY
  1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• REDUCTIVE
  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• DAUGHTERLY
  Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
• HEADSTONE
  1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.
• REDUCTIVELY
  By reduction; by consequence.
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• THERE-ANENT
  Concerning that.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• SHAGREEN
  To chagrin.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• IRREDUCIBLE
  Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore