capitular estates.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A more competent authority on matters capitular than Sydney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

Bishop Turton and Dean Peacock gave the cost of their own figures respectively, and the remainder was paid by the capitular body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ely Cathedral] Reference

The earlier Parliaments returned by the first Reform Bill brought about sweeping and ill-considered changes, both diocesan and capitular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

The capitular decrees remain in force till the next chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

It is his duty to see that all capitular statutes are observed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

In 1878, on the death of Bishop Zanelli, he was elected vicar-capitular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

A capitular has a right to receive his prebend or income from the day of installation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

After his death the see was administered by the vicar capitular, Dr. Engelbert Vorsak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Here he displayed great and most valuable energy; made a survey of the capitular property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old St. Paul's Cathedral] Reference

Other terms applied to such meetings were consistories, sessions, and capitular conferences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

If the chapter be reduced to one, that one can elect a vicar capitular; but he cannot elect himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

He rules that chapters can neither appoint temporarily vicars capitular nor revoke their appointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

He therefore combined the offices of our modern dean of the chapter, vicar-general and vicar capitular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

That this capitular was carried out, or even capable of being carried out, is very doubtful; but the less.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1] Reference

The same year, as junior counsel for the capitular bodies petitioning against the Ecclesiastical Duties and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

As to other dignitaries or officials of the chapter, there is no uniformity among the various capitular bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

He also devoted himself to the organization and cataloguing of the episcopal and capitular library of Freising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

It generally appears linked with another term as "provisor y vicario capitular" or "provisor y vicario general.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

The main object of the last-named capitular bodies is to promote the splendour of God's worship by choir service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

But in the two succeeding centuries there was no class of clergy which fell so far from the ideal as the capitular clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference

He is also to see that the canonical statutes are observed in all that relates to capitular meetings and the choir service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

To the chapter belongs the right of nominating the vicar capitular, charged with administering the diocese during a vacancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The supreme administrator of capitular property, as the dean or other dignitary, is to be determined by local statutes or customs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Besides having a voice in all capitular acts of his province he takes part in the general chapter, should his provincial be impeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

An archbishop or bishop usually had his "provisor" whose powers were apparently the same as a vicar-general's or a vicar-capitular's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

The chapter must choose within eight days a vicar capitular, whose powers, although less extensive, are in kind like those of a bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Apostolic, but his imprisonment and subsequent exile rendered this proposal abortive, and in 1656 Dr. James Dempsey, vicar capitular of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Thus no body of ecclesiastics stood in need of thorough reform more than the capitular clergy, and no class proved so hard to deal with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference

And, by what in continental eyes seemed a strange laxity of discipline, priests, bishops, members of capitular bodies, were often married.    From Wordnik.com.  [William the Conqueror] Reference

When a diocese is vacant, the vicar capitular can and should hold a diocesan synod if a year has elapsed since the celebration of the last once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

More successful to a small degree was the plan of Bishop Ivo of Chartres and others to revive among the capitular bodies the rule of common life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference

And even in the North, where the capitular schools were most flourishing -- as Paris, Reims, and Chartres -- the general tendency was towards relapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference

Truly in a capitular election, if anywhere, the better part of valour is discretion, and the Dean and Chapter of Hereford have realized this saving truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference

The episcopal and capitular group of ecclesiastics round the Cathedral of Barchester is Trollope's main creation, and is destined to endure for some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference

No meagre substitute was supplied by forfeitures, by enforced demises of collegiate, capitular, and episcopal estates, by monopolies, and by letters of marque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

In response he took a firmer stand, and indicated to the chapters both of Italy and France that they should no longer elect the imperial nominees as vicars capitular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)] Reference