Definition of chapter

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Chapter (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.

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Capitular :: Capitular (n.) A member of a chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book..
Capitularly :: Capitularly (adv.) In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.
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.
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..
Headpiece :: Headpiece (n.) An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page..
Verse :: Verse (n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
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.
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..
Eleventh :: Eleventh (a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter..
Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
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..
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..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.
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..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
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