capitulate
Meanings
Plural: capitulates
Verb
- surrender under agreed conditions
- To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.
- To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.
- To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.
- To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).
Adj
- Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.
- Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
- Having or forming a capitulum.
Noun
- Alternative form of capitoulate
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
see Thesaurus:surrender, wave the white flag
Antonyms
bite the dust, capitulate, eat someone's dust, forfeit, give up, lose, relinquish, strike one's flag, surrender, wave the white flag, yield
Scrabble Score: 14
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