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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Respond :: Respond (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
Eleventh :: Eleventh (a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.
Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse..
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..
Suradanni :: Sura (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number..
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..
Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Slype :: Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
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 bishop's council.
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..
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.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A location or compartment.
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..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
Append :: Append (v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter..
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