The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
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A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections. "Several of Charlemagne's capitularies."
... In the Capitulary which enjoins the foundation of monasterial and cathedral schools, he says: "Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right." [1] An irrefragable truth, I fancy. Acting upon it, the king took pretty full ... — Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley
... under pain of excommunication, to consult these sortes sacrae, as they were called. This prohibition was extended to the laity by the Council of Agde in 506, and by that of Orleans in 511. It was renewed repeatedly, as, for instance, in the Council of Auxerre in 595, by a capitulary of Charlemagne in 789, and by the Council of Selingstadt in 1022, but always in vain. If inquirers might not seek for answers in the churches, at the tombs of the Saints, they would seek them in the dens of necromancers. In spite of this condemnation, consultation of the divine oracles even ... — Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould
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