a. [ad. mod.L. capsulār-is, f. capsula: see CAPSULE and -AR1.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a capsule.

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[1679.  Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 196. The bicapsular seed vessel of Digitalis ferruginea.]

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1730–6.  Bailey, Capsular, pertaining to a coffer, chest or casket.

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1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, I. ii. vii. ¶ 74. 245. The capsular Ligaments of the Joints.

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1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xvi. 175. A berry covered with a capsular shell.

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1831.  R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 766. Capsular Lymphatics … come from the supra-renal capsules.

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1822–44.  Good, Study Med. (ed. 4), III. 167. Capsular cataracts are those in which the front, or back, of the capsule of the lens is alone affected.

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1845.  Lindley, Sch. Bot., iv. (1858), 37. Fruit berried or capsular.

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