Definition of chapter

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Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..

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Headnote :: Headnote (n.) A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court..
Title :: Title (n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book..
Slype :: Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery..
Explain :: Explain (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible..
Hebdomadary :: Hebdomadary (n.) A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors..
Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council..
Headpiece :: Headpiece (n.) An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page..
Quotation :: Quotation (n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
Coronis :: Coronis (n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end..
Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin..
Capitularly :: Capitularly (adv.) In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
Caption :: Caption (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..
Respond :: Respond (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
Capitular :: Capitular (n.) An act passed in a chapter.
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