Definition of Capitulating

1. Verb. (present participle of ''capitulate'') ¹

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Definition of Capitulating

1. capitulate [v] - See also: capitulate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitulating

capitols
capitonnage
capitonym
capitonyms
capitopedal
capitualtion
capitula
capitular
capitular joint
capitularies
capitularly
capitulary
capitulate
capitulated
capitulates
capitulating (current term)
capitulation
capitulationer
capitulationest
capitulationism
capitulationist
capitulations
capitulator
capitule
capitulescence
capitulum
capitulum humeri
capitulum of humerus
capiz
capizes

Literary usage of Capitulating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... and without the mortification of capitulating to the broken banks, by accepting and paying out their depreciated notes as the currency of the federal ..."

2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... was capitulating; same day came letters from Bristoll, which say that a merchant ship, arrived there from Bilboa, gives account that at their coming ..."

3. The Establishment of the Turks in Europe by John Russell Russell (1828)
"of the capitulating half were religiously preserved to the Christians by Mahomet; • but this relation is no way entitled to credit. ..."

4. Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare, Compared ...by Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, William Shakespeare, Frederic Dan Huntington by Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, William Shakespeare, Frederic Dan Huntington (1859)
"Wo illustrate our persuasion in this respect by re* capitulating passages from hi* works exhorting to piety and devotion ; such as,— " Let never day nor ..."

5. The Political Evolution of the Hungarian Nation by Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, Cecil (1908)
"... namely, that there was no alternative but to save unnecessary bloodshed by capitulating to the Russians, from whom better terms could be expected than ..."

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