Capitulate vs Acquiescence - What's the difference?
capitulate | acquiescence |
(obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
(obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
* Heylin
To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
* Macaulay
A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
(legal) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.
As a verb capitulate
is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate.As a noun acquiescence is
a silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.capitulate
English
Verb
(capitulat)- there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
- He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .