capitulate

adj

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

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

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

noun

1. Alternative form of capitoulate

verb

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. 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.”

2. 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 propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.

   “there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary”

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