capitalization1 (kap"it a liz ash on)

[ head, "Baptize all nations" must signify all that it can signify, all that are reckoned in the capitations and accounts of a nation. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 127. 2. A tax or imposition upon each head or person; a poll-tax. Sir T. Browne. Also called a capitation - tax. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid unle in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before diConst. of U. S. rected to be taken. Capitation grant, a grant of so much per head; specifically, in Great Britain, a grant annually paid by government to schools on account of each pupil who pa es a certain test examination, and to volunteer military companies on account of such members as reach the stage of "efficients." capitatum (kap-i-tā'tum), n.; pl. cap it at a (-tä). [NL., neut. of L. cap it at us, headed: see capitate.] The large capitate bone of the carpus, more fully called os capitatum; the os magnum. See cut under hand. Capitella (kap-i-tel'ä), n. [NL., fem. dim. of L. caput ( cap it- ), head: see caput.] 1. The typical genus of the family Capitellidæ: synonymous with Lumbriconais.-2. [ l. c.] Plural of capitellum. capi tellar (kap-i-tel'är), a. [L. capitellum, a small head, the capital of a column, dim. of caput ( cap it- ), head: see capitellum.] Of or pertaining to a capitellum. capi tel late (kap-i-tel'at), a. [ IMG:content-3092.png:[graphic] Economics, then, is not solely the science of Exchange or Value: it is also the science of Capitalisation. Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 241. (b) The act of computing or realizing the present value of a periodical payment. (e) Conversion into capital: as, the creditors consented to the capitalization of half their claims. Also spelled capitalisation.