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5 words match “CAPITULAR”

CAPITULAR n. 6 definitions
A member of a chapter. The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe.
CAPITULARLY adv.
In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.
CAPITULARY n. 4 definitions
A capitular.
CANON n.
under Apostolical. -- Augustinian canons, Black canons. See under Augustinian. -- Canon capitular, Canon residentiary, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). -- Canon law. See under Law. -- Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which…
PARAPOPHYSIS n.
The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra. -- Par*ap`o*phys"ic*al, a.