Definition of chapter

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Chapter (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

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Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
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..
Capital :: Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..
Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge..
Fac :: Fac (n.) A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book..
Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Capitulate :: Capitulate (n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
Benedicite :: Benedicite (n.) A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
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.) A community of canons or canonesses.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
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..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.
Caption :: Caption (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page..
Canonry :: Canonry (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.
Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To divide into chapters, as 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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