Definition of chapter

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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..

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Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
Cellarer :: Cellarer (n.) A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
Coronis :: Coronis (n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end..
Capital :: Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..
Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..
Headpiece :: Headpiece (n.) An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page..
Append :: Append (v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter..
Verse :: Verse (n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
Capitular :: Capitular (n.) A member of a 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..
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.
Suradanni :: Sura (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number..
Hexahemeron :: Hexahemeron (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A location or compartment.
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..
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.) 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..
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.
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