For example, in describing the treatment of fistulae Celsus says: In has demisso specillo ad ultimum eius caput incidi cutis debet (VII.
A day's march westward from our landing place at Caput Vada on the road to Carthage near the sea, is the city of Syllektum.
The scite of the caput of this barony is in the environs of Pont l'Evesque.
Renouf, Viscount of the Bessin, is afterwards called by Wace Renouf de Bricasard, from the castle of Bricasard, which formed the caput of the barony of the viscounts of the Bessin.
This means caput valli, and is the name for the eastern termination of the Vallum of Antoninus.
Per caput hoc juro per quod Pater ante solebat, saith Ascanius in Virgil: and Apuleius notes it for an absurdity.
If they concerned accomplices, however, whom the culprit was suspected of shielding, he was tortured in caput alienum.
He was sentenced to relaxation and torture in caput alienum; it was administered with great severity without overcoming his fortitude, and he persisted through five other publications as fresh evidence was gathered.
The Instructions of 1561, however, warn inquisitors that in these cases much consideration should be exercised and torture in caput alienum was rather the exception in Spain, than the rule as in Rome.
The Spanish Inquisition was, therefore, only following a general practice when it tortured, in caput alienum, those who had confessed their guilt.
This, not Caput Senatus, is the form which we find in Anon.
The alleged magical powers of the magnet are recited in Caput I.
Then Cap'n Kidd darted forward that knobby head with its ugly beak, and tore off Peter's caput with one mighty wrench.
Black pads were hugged to his ears by a steel strip that curved behind his head, and he wore a hard hat that seemed merely to perch insecurely on his caput instead of fit.
Footnote 15: The Caput Vada of Procopius (where Justinian afterwards founded a city--De Edific.
By the nature and connexions of the protruded part, as in hernia of the sigmoid flexure, or of the caput cœcum coli.
According to the scholiast the last four lines-- torva Mimalloneis implerunt cornua bombis, et raptum vitulo caput ablatura superbo Bassaris et lyncem Maenas flexura corymbis euhion ingeminat, reparabilis adsonat echo (i.
There were to be in all five concessions, the first of which was the really important and crucial one--‘Ecclesiae et cleri Anglicani, cujus protector et supremum caput is solus est.
Then we are told how lands 'geld' at or in some manor or at the caput manerii.
In the Florentine Lodge which kept up the older Latin, these are called caput magister and provveditore.
He was not named caput magister, as one of the guild would have been, but he and Ghiberti (whose model had been next best) were named provisori of the dome, while the Magister Baptista di Antonio was caput magister proper of the lodge.
In his architectural capacity he was employed at Naples by King Robert of Anjou, but was recalled from there to Siena in 1339, and made caput magister of the builders of the Duomo.
In 1408 we find that Magister Niccolao, surnamed Pela, took the contract to carve in marble the doorway near the chapel of the crucifix, which was designed by "Johannem Ambroxii, caput magistrum.
Some people regard the free entry of the caput mortuum with a hostility like that shown by our ancestors (and to some extent ourselves) to the mortmain of the Church.
It frequently happened that for several days he gave no instruction, and soon after his appointment the Caput censured him for neglecting his work and for "conduct highly reprehensible and subversive of all College discipline.
But students' fees, because of the small number in attendance, gave but little reward, and as a result the new French Lecturer was apparently not always as zealous and enthusiastic in his unremunerative labours as the Caput desired.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caput" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cap; crest; crown; head; heading; headpiece; pinhead; topknot
