The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capitulary \Ca*pit"u*la*ry\, n.; pl. Capitularies. [See Capitular.]
A capitular.
The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
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A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.
Several of Charlemagne's capitularies.
--Hallam.
Capitulary \Ca*pit"u*la*ry\, a.
Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
``Capitulary acts.''
--Warton.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a chapter n. 1 A member of an ecclesiastical chapter 2 A set of decrees, especially those made by the Frankish kings
WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter; "capitular estates" [syn: capitular]
Wikipedia
A capitulary ( medieval Latin capitularium) was a series of legislative or administrative acts emanating from the Frankish court of the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, especially that of the first emperor of the Romans in the west since the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, Charlemagne. They were so called because they were formally divided into sections called capitula (plural of capitulum, a diminutive of caput meaning "head(ing)", i.e. chapters).
As soon as the capitulary was composed, it was sent to the various functionaries of the Frankish empire, archbishops, bishops, missi dominici and counts, a copy being kept by the chancellor in the archives of the palace. The last emperor to compose capitularies was Lambert in 898.
Usage examples of "capitulary".
Hugh used him to make copies of any royal cartularies and capitularies which might be of interest to the skopos and to run errands.
I bring also capitularies needing your seal, and a letter for Sister Rosvita from Mother Rothgard of St.
Because of the uproar surrounding Sanglant, Rosvita had only that morning discovered among the capitularies sent from the schola the letter from Mother Romgard and its terrifying contents: malefici-malevolent sorcerers-lurking in the court!
Emperor Taillefer, to have knowledge of capitularies of those times that have been lost to us.
Clerics wrote the letters and capitularies and cartularies which were handed over, sealed, to the king's messengers.
In February 1791, Casanova wrote to Countess Lamberg: "I have in my capitularies more than four hundred sentences which pass for aphorisms and which include all the tricks which place one word for another.
But the adding of these Capitularies to the personal laws occasioned, I imagine, the neglect of the very body of the Capitularies themselves.
Hence it is, that in France and Germany the written laws of the barbarians, as well as the Roman law and the Capitularies fell into oblivion.
The regulations of the Capitularies became likewise of no manner of service.
He ordained, in his Capitularies, that the counties should be given to the children of the count, and that this regulation should also take place in respect to the fiefs.
Here are four royal capitularies completed by the clerics at the king's order.
In succeeding times the arms they made use of were heavy, and they were already greatly so in the time of Charlemagne, as appears by our capitularies and romances.
Hence we constantly find in the Capitularies a distinction made between the king's vassals and those of the bishops.
I shall likewise quote two Capitularies of Charles the Bald, one of the year 861.
Liath glanced through the capitularies: King Henry grants to the nuns of Regensbach a certain estate named Felstatt for which they owe the king and his heirs full accommodation and renders of food and drink for the royal retinue as well as fodder for the horses at such times as the king's progress may pass that way.