capitularly

English

Etymology

From capitular +‎ -ly.

Adverb

capitularly (comparative more capitularly, superlative most capitularly)

1. (religion) In the manner or form of, or acting as, a religious chapter.
   • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

     The dean of Strasburg , the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars, (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of buttered buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of Saint Ursula's example

References

• “capitularly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.