capitule
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of chapter: a reading at one of the canonical hours.
noun
The flowering head that terminates a stem, a flower or flower head.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "On 2ᵈ Nov. the Capitul was signed & fridʸ 3ᵈ we took possession."
- "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."
- "At Vespers the following is sung, after the Capitule:"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin