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capitulate

verb
/kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/UK/kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt/US/kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.lət/UK/kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.lət/US

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1537; borrowed from Medieval Latin capitulātus perfect passive participle of Medieval Latin capitulō (“(originally; of a book, text) to draw up under distinct headings; (from the 15ᵗʰ c.) to bargain, parley, convene”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), diminutive of caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

  1. derived from *kap-✻
  2. derived from capitulō
  3. borrowed from capitulātus

Definitions

  1. To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.

    • He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
    • The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.
    • The CCP has refused to capitulate to Trump’s demands to come to the table and renegotiate their terms of trade.

  2. To draw up in chapters, heads or articles

    To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.

    • The lawes […] which we capitulate at sea […] are not used on lande.
    • The places of serpents abode being thus generally capitulated.

  3. To draw up articles of agreement with

    To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.

    • there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).

    2. Capitulated

      Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.

      • It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]

    3. Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.

    4. Having or forming a capitulum.

      • The aggregation of flowers into capitulate inflorescences is a character directly advantageous from the aspect of the biological function of cross-pollination.

    5. Alternative form of capitoulate

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Derived

capitulator, precapitulate, uncapitulated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at capitulate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at capitulate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at capitulate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA