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.
To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.
The lawes […] which we capitulate at sea […] are not used on lande.
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
Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.
It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]
Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
Alternative form of capitoulate
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 und...
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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.