Usurp vs Capitulate - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between usurp and capitulate

is that usurp is to make use of while capitulate is to draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

is that usurp is to seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means while capitulate is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

(en verb)

To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.

(obsolete) To make use of.

* 1662 , , Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 149:

(capitulat)

(obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

(obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

* Heylin

there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary

To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.

* Macaulay

The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .

* wave the white flag