Capitulator. World English Historical Dictionary

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[agent-noun in L. form, from CAPITULATE v.] One who capitulates.

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1611.  Cotgr., Capituleur, a capitulator.

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1632.  in Sherwood.

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1792.  Times, 19 Nov., 4/1. The capitulators are to fulfil the agreements by them entered into on their enlisting in the service.

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1845.  For. Q. Rev., XXXV. 234. That the capitulator felt ashamed of what he was doing is manifest from the language of those articles in the treaty which constitute the monument of his guilt.

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1846.  in Worcester; and in mod. Dicts.

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1921.  W. Wood, Captains of the Civil War, i. 3. Anderson the Southerner, in whom he hoped to find a good capitulator.

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