Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Capocchi (Or Capoccius), Reneiro an Italian theologian and poet, was a native of :Viterbo. He belonged to the order of Cistercians. Pope Innocent IV made him cardinal. He died in May, 1258, leaving some Latin hymns, among them, Caelorum Candor, and Plange Turba Paupercula. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Capocchi (Or Capoccius), Reneiro”

capnomancy (Greek: kapnos, smoke; manteia, divination) Divination by the ascent or motion of smoke. This custom, started in early Greece , was considered a favorable omen if the smoke from burned incense or in connection with a sacrifice rose vertically. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Capnomancy (from , snzoke,.and , divination) is a species of divination … Continue reading “Capnomancy”

Capnis SEE REUCHLIN. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Caples, Jacob T. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Jeromesville,. Sept. 8, 1825. He was converted at the age of fifteen, and educated at Norwalk Seminary. In 1845 he received license to exhort, and in the following year entered the North Ohio Conference, in which he served zealously until his death, July 25,1860. Mr. … Continue reading “Caples, Jacob T.”

Capitulations, Episcopal and Pontifical Capitulations were agreements, by which those taking part in the election of a bishop or pope imposed special conditions upon the candidate to be fulfilled by him after his election. Episcopal capitulations owe their origin to the fact that since the eleventh and twelfth centuries the real election of bishops was … Continue reading “Capitulations, Episcopal and Pontifical”

capitulation An agreement by which those taking part in elections imposed certain conditions upon a candidate to be fulfilled by him after election; an agreement by which the Turkish government granted special immunities and privileges to aliens. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

capitulary A collection of ordinances, especially those promulgated by the Frankish kings. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Capitularies (capitula, chapters), a term applied especially to the statutes of the Frankish kings made in the assemblies of bishops and lords of the kingdom, and called capitula because published in chapters. The bishops reduced into the form of articles such rules as they deemed necessary, taken for the most part from the canons. The … Continue reading “Capitularies”

Capitulant is a knight, canon, or monk having a voice in the chapter. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Capittum (or Capitular) is (1) Properly a summary or heading, under which many particulars are arranged. (2) Hence, in the plural, codes of law, ecclesiastical or civil, digested under chapters or capita. (3) The word came also to mean the “chapter” itself, of which it is properly the heading; as, e.g. the capitula or short … Continue reading “Capittum”