capital
cap-i-tal / kăp-ĭ-tl
adjective first, primary, main Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation. Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895 excellent, top-notch When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. Lewis Carroll, 1832 – 1898 related to being a seat of government There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry. William E. Conway, Jr., 1949 – very serious It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 involving death or the death penalty If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime. Spanish proverb involving the financial assets or wealth of I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955 involving an uppercase letter No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk? John H. McWhorter, 1965 - noun resource, means, principal, wealth Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. Horace Mann, 1796 - 1859 the investors of a business or venture as a group Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. Pope Leo XIII, 1810 - 1903 an uppercase letter, often used as the first letter of a sentence or in a proper name Use capitals for proper nouns. From “The Rules of Capitalization” https://www.scribendi.com/advice/capitalization.en.html the city where the rules for a state or county are made; a seat of government America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. Wright Mills 1916-1962 the top part of a column If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts. Charles Jencks, 1939 - capitol cap-i-tol / kăp-ĭ-tl noun the building in which the Congress of the United States or a state legislature meets to create laws We reached Washington at about half-past six that evening, and had upon the way a beautiful view of the Capitol, which is a fine building of the Corinthian order, placed upon a noble and commanding eminence. From “American Notes for General Circulation” by Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870