CAPITAL Letters, in Printing, large or initial letters, in which titles, &c. are composed, with which all periods, verses, &c. commence, and all proper names of men, kingdoms, nations, &c. begin. The practice which for some time obtained among our printers, of beginning every substantive with a capital, has now justly fallen into disrepute, being a manifest perversion of the design of capitals, as well as an offence against beauty and distinctness.