Definition of chapter

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Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.

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Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean..
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..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A location or compartment.
Slype :: Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery..
Headpiece :: Headpiece (n.) An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page..
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..
Capitularly :: Capitularly (adv.) In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..
Hexahemeron :: Hexahemeron (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis..
Interchapter :: Interchapter (n.) An intervening or inserted chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse..
Eleventh :: Eleventh (a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter..
Capitular :: Capitular (n.) An act passed in a chapter.
Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Capital :: Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..
Black Rod :: Black Rod () the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords..
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