\Ca*pit"u*lar\, n. [LL. capitulare, capitularium, fr.
L. capitulum a small head, a chapter, dim. of capit head,
chapter.]
1. An act passed in a chapter.
2. A member of a chapter.
         The chapter itself, and all its members or
         capitulars.                           --Ayliffe.
3. The head or prominent part.

\Ca*pit"u*lar\, a.
1. (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
         From the pope to the member of the capitular body.
                                               --Milman.
2. (Bot.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.
3. (Anat.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular
   process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with
   the capitulum of a rib.