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the upper part of a column that supports the entablature punishable by death; "a capital offense" serious of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" primary uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" uppercase assets available for use in the production of further assets wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value a seat of government one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" superior a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories |
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