capitulate

Etymology

From the participle stem of Medieval Latin capitulare (“draw up under headings”), from Latin capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”), diminutive of caput (“head”).

verb

  1. (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
    He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
    there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary 1661, Peter Heylin, Ecclesia restaurata

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