capitalis

capitālis e, adj.with comp.

caput, of the head, chief, foremost, pre - eminent, distinguished : Ingenium, O.: ille, a writer of the first rank : erat capitalior, quod, etc., more distinguished .—In law, of life, involving life, capital : accusare alquem rei capitalis, of a capital crime : cui rei capitalis dies dicta sit, L.: reus rerum capitalium: flagitia, T.: noxa, L.: iudicium trium virorum capitalium, who had charge of the prisons and of executions .—Fig., deadly, pernicious, irreconcilable, bitter : flagitia, outrageous , T.: hostis, a deadly enemy : ira, H.: oratio, dangerous : nulla capitalior pestis.