capitularly
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Etymology edit
Adverb edit
capitularly (comparative more capitularly, superlative most capitularly)
- (religion) In the manner or form of, or acting as, a religious chapter.
- 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
- The dean of Strasburg , the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars, (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of buttered buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of Saint Ursula's example
References edit
- “capitularly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.