Obs. [ad. med.L. capitulāt-us, pa. pple. of capitulāre ‘capitulis aliquid distinguere’ (Du Cange), to draw up under distinct heads, f. capitulum head of a discourse, chapter, title, dim. of caput head.]
Reduced to heads; agreed or laid down in a number of distinct heads or items; stipulated.
1528. Gardiner, in Pocock, Rec. Ref., I. l. 99. It is capitulate between the king’s highness and the French king to make actual war in Flaundres.
1574. Hellowes, Gueuara’s Ep. (1577), 19. It was a law made and capitulate by the Lawyers.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXIV. vi. 512. It was capitulate and covenanted, that … the river Himera [etc.].
