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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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..
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..
Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse..
Interchapter :: Interchapter (n.) An intervening or inserted chapter.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Coronis :: Coronis (n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
Section :: Section (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division..
Slype :: Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery..
Capital :: Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..
Eleventh :: Eleventh (a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter..
Capitular :: Capitular (n.) An act passed in a chapter.
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..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.
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..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..
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..
Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
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