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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAPITULATE, v.i.
1. To draw up a writing in chapters, heads or articles. [But this sense is not usual.]
2. To surrender, as an army or garrison, to an enemy, by treaty, in which the terms of surrender are specified and agreed to by the parties. The term is applicable to a garrison or to the inhabitants of a besieged place, or to an army or troops in any situation in which they are subdued or compelled to submit to a victorious enemy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: surrender under agreed conditions

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (-lated; -lating) Etymology: Medieval Latin capitulatus, past participle of capitulare to distinguish by heads or chapters, from Late Latin capitulum Date: 1596 1. archaic parley, negotiate 2. a. to surrender often after negotiation of terms b. to cease resisting ; acquiesce Synonyms: see yield

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. surrender, esp. on stated conditions. Derivatives: capitulator n. capitulatory adj. Etymology: med.L capitulare draw up under headings f. L caput head

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Capitulate Ca*pit"u*late, v. t. To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [R.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Capitulate Ca*pit"u*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Capitulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Capitulating.] [LL. capitulatus, p. p. of capitulare to capitulate: cf. F. capituler. See Capitular, n.] 1. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.] There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. --Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. --Trench. 2. To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. --Macaulay.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(capitulates, capitulating, capitulated) If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do. The club eventually capitulated and now grants equal rights to women... In less than two hours Cohen capitulated to virtually every demand. = submit, yield VERB: V, V to n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Surrender (by treaty), yield on conditions.

Moby Thesaurus

abandon, acknowledge defeat, acquiesce, beg a truce, bow, cave, cede, come to terms, concede, cry pax, cry quits, defer, give in, give over, give up, implore mercy, knuckle, knuckle under, pray for quarter, relent, relinquish, renounce, say uncle, submit, succumb, surrender, yield, yield the palm