a. and sb. [ad. med.L. capitulārius, -ium in same senses; F. capitulaire. Cf. CAPITULAR.]

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  A.  adj. Of or pertaining to a chapter.

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1774.  T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, III. § 35 (R.). The register of the capitulary acts of York Cathedral.

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1861.  Times, 23 May, 8/6. (Milan), The Capitulary Vicar has prohibited the clergy from taking part in the approaching national fête.

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  B.  sb.

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  1.  A member of an ecclesiastical chapter. ? Obs.

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1694.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 298. The grand dean … adjourned the chapter … and retired with 22 capitularies.

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  2.  A collection of ordinances (in mod.L. called capitula), especially those made on their own authority by the Frankish kings.

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1650.  Elderfield, Tythes, 111. And the capitularies [say] that they were the vows of the faithful.

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1747.  Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 240. Enjoined by the capitularies of Charle-Magne.

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1844.  Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., iii. (1862), 54. We have also an ordinance of 829, the Capitulary of Worms.

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1874.  Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. i. 10. Germany, except in the few Capitularies of the Frank sovereigns, has no central or common written law.

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  3.  A heading, title, category.

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1824–9.  Landor, Imag. Conv., Southey & Porson, 1. All that portion of our metre … ranged under the capitulary of lyric.

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