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/kˈæpɪtəl/ Listen

noun

Capitol n.

The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met. "Comes Caesar to the Capitol to-morrow?"

The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of a State holds its sessions; a statehouse.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... appreciation were passed, and delegations appointed to attend his funeral. In the United States Senate a resolution was offered reciting that in the person of the late Frederick Douglass death had borne away a most illustrious citizen, and permitting the body to lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol on Sunday. The immediate consideration of the resolution was asked for. Mr. Gorman, of Maryland, the State which Douglass honored by his birth, objected; and the ...

— Frederick Douglass - A Biography • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

... Abe replied. "Two hundred to Hamburg and Weiss. Three hundred to the Capitol Credit Outfitting Company, and five hundred ...

— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass

... was a Stoic philosopher, whom Antoninus valued highly, and often took his advice (Capitol. ...

— Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

... steal the governorship. There was even a meeting in the big town of the State to determine openly whether there should be resistance to him by force. Two men from the mountains had met in the lobby of the Capitol Hotel and a few moments later, under the drifting powder smoke, two men lay wounded and three lay dead. The quarrel was personal, it was said, but the dial-hand of the times was left pointing with ...

— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.

... event in the future, so that it becomes actionable only on something being done or omitted: for instance, 'Do you promise to give five aurei if Titius is made consul?' If, however, a man stipulates in the form 'Do you promise to give so and so, if I do not go up to the Capitol?' the effect is the same as if he had stipulated for payment to himself at the time of his death. The immediate effect of a conditional stipulation is not a debt, but merely the expectation that at some time there will be a debt: and this expectation devolves on the ...

— The Institutes of Justinian • Caesar Flavius Justinian

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