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capital （‘punishable by death’ the most freq. use)
1. chief, principal 1H4 III. ii. 110 “military title capital,” H5 V. ii. 96 “She is our capital demand.”
2. deadly, fatal Cor. V. iii. 104.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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    • William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, 5.3
    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry IV, 3.2
    • William Shakespeare, Henry V, 5.2
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