Capitulatory. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. [f. as prec. + -ORY.] Of or pertaining to capitulation; cf. recapitulatory.

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1770.  Public Advertiser, 19 May, 2/2. No practicable Breach was made; no single Offer of capitulatory Participation!

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1833.  Lamb, Elia (1860), 243. In their tedious genealogies, or their capitulatory brass monuments?

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