Definition of "capite" [cap•i•te]

• See under tenant. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "In Latin, there's a phrase capite velato meaning literally 'with covered head'."
• "There was, however, a distinction in the last class between the proletarians, and those who were called capite censi.6 The first of these, not absolutely destitute of all means, gave citizens to the State, and sometimes soldiers in times of urgent necessity."
• "All are put under him; we hold of him, as in capite, and owe subjection and obedience to him, who is also Jesus and Christ, the anointed Saviour, and especially our"